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]

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

Species edit

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

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "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.