Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cithaeronidae |
| Genus: | Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
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Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa
- Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa
- Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015 – Morocco
- Cithaeron indicus Platnick & Gajbe, 1994 – India
- Cithaeron jocqueorum Platnick, 1991 – Ivory Coast
- Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (type) – North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States[3]
- Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 – Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
- ^ "Genus Cithaeron". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-18.