Cethegus (spider)

Cethegus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Euagridae
Genus:	Cethegus Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
C. lugubris Thorell, 1881
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Palaevagrus Simon, 1908[2]

Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It s endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[3]

Species

As of July 2020^[update] the genus contained twelve species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):[1]

• Cethegus barraba Raven, 1984 – NSW
• Cethegus broomi (Hogg, 1901) – NSW
• Cethegus colemani Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus daemeli Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus elegans Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus fugax (Simon, 1908) – SA, WA
• Cethegus hanni Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus ischnotheloides Raven, 1985 – SA
• Cethegus lugubris Thorell, 1881 (type) – QLD
• Cethegus multispinosus Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus pallipes Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus robustus Raven, 1984 – QLD

References

1. "Gen. Cethegus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
2. Main, B. Y. (1960). "The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae)". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 43: 30.
3. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.