Biology:Cethegus (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Cethegus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euagridae
Genus: Cethegus
Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
C. lugubris
Thorell, 1881
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Palaevagrus Simon, 1908[2]

Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It s endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[3]

Species

(As of July 2020) the genus contained twelve species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):[1]

  • Cethegus barraba Raven, 1984 – NSW
  • Cethegus broomi (Hogg, 1901) – NSW
  • Cethegus colemani Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus daemeli Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus elegans Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus fugax (Simon, 1908) – SA, WA
  • Cethegus hanni Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus ischnotheloides Raven, 1985 – SA
  • Cethegus lugubris Thorell, 1881 (type) – QLD
  • Cethegus multispinosus Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus pallipes Raven, 1984 – QLD
  • Cethegus robustus Raven, 1984 – QLD


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Cethegus Thorell, 1881. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/803. Retrieved 2020-07-13. 
  2. Main, B. Y. (1960). "The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae)". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 43: 30. 
  3. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1–727. 

Wikidata ☰ Q54958 entry