
Pisaurina is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. It likes to live within vegetated areas such as meadows, bushes or tall grass, preferring warm or tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.
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Pisaurina is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. It likes to live within vegetated areas such as meadows, bushes or tall grass, preferring warm or tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.
==Species== it contains four species, found only in Canada, the United States, and on the Greater Antilles: Pisaurina brevipes (Emerton, 1911) – USA, Canada Pisaurina dubia (Hentz, 1847) – USA Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – USA, Canada Pisaurina undulata (Keyserling, 1887) – USA, Cuba
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