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Cryptoerithus

Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915. Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.

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Cryptoerithus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Cryptoerithus
Rainbow, 19151
Type species
C. occultus
Rainbow, 1915
Species

19, see text

Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915.2 Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.3

Species

As of March 2020 it contains nineteen species, found in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory:1

  • Cryptoerithus annaburroo Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Cryptoerithus griffith Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus halifax Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus halli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus harveyi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus hasenpuschi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cryptoerithus lawlessi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cryptoerithus melindae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus nichtaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cryptoerithus ninan Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus nonaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus nopaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus nyetaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Cryptoerithus occultus Rainbow, 1915 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus quamby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Cryptoerithus quobba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
  • Cryptoerithus rough Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Cryptoerithus shadabi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
  • Cryptoerithus stuart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
References

References

  1. "Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  2. Rainbow, W. J. (1915). "Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39: 772–793.
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.