Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2] The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.[3]
| Cryphoeca | |
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| Cryphoeca silvicola | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cybaeidae |
| Genus: | Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834)
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains twelve species and one subspecies:[1]
- Cryphoeca angularis Saito, 1934 – Japan
- Cryphoeca brignolii Thaler, 1980 – Switzerland, Italy
- Cryphoeca carpathica Herman, 1879 – Eastern Europe
- Cryphoeca exlineae Roth, 1988 – USA
- Cryphoeca lichenum L. Koch, 1876 – Germany, Austria
- Cryphoeca l. nigerrima Thaler, 1978 – Germany, Austria
- Cryphoeca montana Emerton, 1909 – USA, Canada
- Cryphoeca nivalis Schenkel, 1919 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
- Cryphoeca pirini (Drensky, 1921) – Bulgaria, Turkey
- Cryphoeca shingoi Ono, 2007 – Japan
- Cryphoeca shinkaii Ono, 2007 – Japan
- Cryphoeca silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
- Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 109–242.
- ^ "Spider of the Month - February". Professor David Curtis. Retrieved 2016-09-19.