title: Perenethis
text: # Perenethis
  
  Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2019 it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:
  
  * Perenethis dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan or India
  * Perenethis fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
  * Perenethis simoni (Lessert, 1916) – Africa, Comoros
  * Perenethis sindica (Simon, 1897) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
  * Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) – Africa
  * Perenethis venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
  