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Creugas

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

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Creugas
Creugas lisei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Creugas
Thorell, 18781
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 the United States of America (USA) 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, USA (California)
  • 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

References

  1. 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.
  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.