title: Pararaneus
text: # Pararaneus
  
  Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains five species:
  
  * Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra
  * Pararaneus perforatus (Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa
  * Pararaneus pseudostriatus (Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa
  * Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East
  * Pararaneus uncivulva (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
  