Biology:Creugas

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Creugas
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Creugas
Thorell, 1878[1]
Type species
C. gulosus
Thorell, 1878
Species

20, see text

Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains twenty species in the Americas from Mexico to Brazil, and one (C. gulosus) with a cosmopolitan distribution:[1]

  • Creugas annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
  • Creugas apophysarius (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
  • Creugas bajulus (Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico
  • Creugas bellator (L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
  • Creugas berlandi Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
  • Creugas bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
  • Creugas cinnamius Simon, 1888 – Mexico
  • Creugas comondensis Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
  • Creugas epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
  • Creugas falculus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
  • Creugas guaycura Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
  • Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
  • Creugas lisei Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
  • Creugas mucronatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Creugas navus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
  • Creugas nigricans (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
  • Creugas plumatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
  • Creugas praeceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
  • Creugas silvaticus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
  • Creugas uncatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/533. Retrieved 2019-05-19. 
  2. Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari.". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 1–317. 

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