Cryptoerithus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Cryptoerithus
Rainbow, 1915[1]
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)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "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.


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