Cithaeron (spider)
Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2]
Cithaeron | |
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Scientific 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
- "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.
- 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.
- "Genus Cithaeron". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
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