Creugas

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: Corinnoidea

Familia: Corinnidae
Subfamilia: Corinninae
Genus: Creugas
Species: C. annamae – C. apophysarius – C. bajulus – C. bellator – C. berlandi – C. bicuspis – C. cinnamius – C. comondensis – C. epicureanus – C. falculus – C. guaycura – C. gulosus – C. lisei – C. mucronatus – C. navus – C. nigricans – C. plumatus – C. praeceps – C. silvaticus – C. uncatus
Name

Creugas Thorell, 1878

Type species: Creugas gulosus Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1878, by monotypy
References
Primary references

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. [175]

Additional references

Raven, R.J. 2015: A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 3958(1): 1–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-693-8 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-694-5 (Online edition) Reference page.

Links

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

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

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
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.