Cithaeron (spider)

Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2]

Cithaeron
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cithaeronidae
Genus: Cithaeron
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1]
Type species
C. praedonius
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Species

7, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa
  • Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa
  • Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015 – Morocco
  • Cithaeron indicus Platnick & Gajbe, 1994 – India
  • Cithaeron jocqueorum Platnick, 1991 – Ivory Coast
  • Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (type) – North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States[3]
  • Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 – Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)

References

  1. "Gen. Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
  3. "Genus Cithaeron". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-18.


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