Cyrtauchenius

Cyrtauchenius
Turret and trap door of C. latastei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Cyrtaucheniidae
Genus:	Cyrtauchenius Thorell, 1869[1]
Type species
C. terricola (Lucas, 1846)
Species
14, see text

Cyrtauchenius is a genus of wafer trapdoor spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Cyrtaucheniidae in 1985.[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fourteen species, almost all from Algeria:[1]

• Cyrtauchenius artifex (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius bedeli Simon, 1881 – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius bicolor (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius castaneiceps (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius dayensis Simon, 1881 – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius inops (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius latastei Simon, 1881 – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius longipalpus (Denis, 1945) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius luridus Simon, 1881 – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius maculatus (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius structor (Simon, 1889) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius talpa Simon, 1891 – USA
• Cyrtauchenius terricola (Lucas, 1846) (type) – Algeria
• Cyrtauchenius vittatus Simon, 1881 – Algeria

References

1. "Gen. Cyrtauchenius Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.
3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 128.