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Phaeocedus

Phaeocedus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.

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Phaeocedus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Phaeocedus
Simon, 18931
Type species
P. braccatus
(L. Koch, 1866)
Species

5, see text

Phaeocedus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.2

Species

As of November 2021 it contains five species and one subspecies:1

  • Phaeocedus braccatus (L. Koch, 1866) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Japan
    • Phaeocedus b. jugorum Simon, 1914 – France
  • Phaeocedus fedotovi Charitonov, 1946 – Uzbekistan
  • Phaeocedus hebraeus Levy, 1999 – Greece, Cyprus, Israel
  • Phaeocedus mikha Levy, 2009 – Israel, Portugal
  • Phaeocedus vankeeri Chatzaki, 2019 – France (incl. Corsica), Greece (Rhodes, Symi)
References

References

  1. "Gen. Phaeocedus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  2. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.