{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Pterotricha arabica (10.3897-evolsyst.2.29981) Figure 6.jpg | image_caption = ''P. arabica'' | image2 = Pterotricha simoni 469970474.jpg | image2_caption = ''P. simoni'' | taxon = Pterotricha | authority = Kulczyński, 1903<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''P. lentiginosa'' | type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1837) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 39, see text }}
'''''Pterotricha''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1903.<ref name=Kulc1903 />
==Species== <gallery mode=packed heights=140px> Callilepis saga male 1906 fig80.jpg|male ''P. saga'' Pterotricha strandi (10.3897-zookeys.777.26745) Figure 15 (cropped).jpg|''P. strandi''
</gallery> {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes 39 species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Pterotricha algerica'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Algeria, Libya * ''Pterotricha arabica'' <small>Zamani, 2018</small> – United Arab Emirates * ''Pterotricha argentosa'' <small>Charitonov, 1946</small> – Uzbekistan * ''Pterotricha arzhantsevi'' <small>Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2018</small> – Iraq * ''Pterotricha auris'' <small>(Tucker, 1923)</small> – Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho * ''Pterotricha cambridgei'' <small>(L. Koch, 1872)</small> – Syria, Israel * ''Pterotricha chazaliae'' <small>(Simon, 1895)</small> – Portugal, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Israel * ''Pterotricha conspersa'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Libya, Egypt, Israel * ''Pterotricha dalmasi'' <small>Fage, 1929</small> – Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran * ''Pterotricha djibutensis'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Somalia * ''Pterotricha egens'' <small>Denis, 1966</small> – Libya * ''Pterotricha engediensis'' <small>Levy, 1995</small> – Israel * ''Pterotricha esyunini'' <small>Zamani, 2018</small> – United Arab Emirates, Iraq * ''Pterotricha insolita'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Algeria * ''Pterotricha kochi'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel * ''Pterotricha kovblyuki'' <small>Zamani & Marusik, 2018</small> – United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran * ''Pterotricha lentiginosa'' <small>(C. L. Koch, 1837)</small> – Montenegro, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey (type species) * ''Pterotricha lesserti'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia * ''Pterotricha levantina'' <small>Levy, 1995</small> – Israel * ''Pterotricha lutata'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Lebanon, Israel * ''Pterotricha marginalis'' <small>(Tucker, 1923)</small> – South Africa * ''Pterotricha mauritanica'' <small>Denis, 1945</small> – Mauritania * ''Pterotricha montana'' <small>Zamani & Marusik, 2018</small> – Iran * ''Pterotricha nadolnyi'' <small>Zamani, 2018</small> – United Arab Emirates * ''Pterotricha nomas'' <small>(Thorell, 1875)</small> – Russia (Europe) * ''Pterotricha parasyriaca'' <small>Levy, 1995</small> – Israel * ''Pterotricha paupercula'' <small>Denis, 1966</small> – Libya * ''Pterotricha pavlovskyi'' <small>Spassky, 1952</small> – Tajikistan * ''Pterotricha procera'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)</small> – Egypt, Israel * ''Pterotricha pseudoparasyriaca'' <small>Nuruyeva & Huseynov, 2016</small> – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran * ''Pterotricha quagga'' <small>(Pavesi, 1884)</small> – Tunisia * ''Pterotricha saga'' <small>(Dönitz & Strand, 1906)</small> – Japan * ''Pterotricha schaefferi'' <small>(Audouin, 1826)</small> – Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Cyprus, Israel * ''Pterotricha simoni'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Portugal, Spain * ''Pterotricha somaliensis'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Somalia * ''Pterotricha stevensi'' <small>Zamani, 2018</small> – United Arab Emirates * ''Pterotricha strandi'' <small>Spassky, 1936</small> – Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India * ''Pterotricha syriaca'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Syria * ''Pterotricha vicina'' <small>Dalmas, 1921</small> – Algeria, Libya {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=wsc>{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/977 | title=Genus Pterotricha | publisher=World Spider Catalog | accessdate=25 September 2025}}</ref> <ref name=Kulc1903>{{cite journal|last=Kulczyński|first=W.|year=1903|title=Aranearum et Opilionum species in insula Creta a comite Dre Carolo Attems collectae.|journal=Bulletin International de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie|pages=32–58|volume=1903}}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of Asia
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