Cithaeron

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
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Gnaphosoidea

Familia: Cithaeronidae
Genus: Cithaeron
Species (7): C. contentum – C. delimbatus – C. dippenaarae – C. indicus – C. jocqueorum – C. praedonius – C. reimoseri
Name

Cithaeron O. P-Cambridge, 1872

Type species: Cithaeron praedonius O. P-Cambridge, 1872, by monotypy
References

Cambridge, O. P.-. 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 1871: 212–354. [272]
Jocqué, R.; Russell-Smith, A. 2011: A new species of Cithaeron from South Africa (Araneae: Cithaeronidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 15(6): 209–210. [not seen]

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Links

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

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