Celaenia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Araneinae
Tribus: Celaenini
Genus: Celaenia
Species: C. atkinsoni – C. calotoides – C. distincta – C. dubia – C. excavata – C. hectori – C. olivacea – C. penna – C. tuberosa – C. tumidosa – C. voraginosa
Name

Celaenia Thorell, 1868

Type species: Celaenia excavata L. Koch, 1867
References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Celaenia

Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]
Species

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

Celaenia atkinsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
Celaenia calotoides Rainbow, 1908 – Australia (New South Wales)
Celaenia distincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania)
Celaenia dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, New Zealand
Celaenia hectori (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
Celaenia olivacea (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
Celaenia penna (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
Celaenia tuberosa (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
Celaenia tumidosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
Celaenia voraginosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)

References

"Gen. Celaenia Thorell, 1868". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
Thorell, T. (1868). Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae.