Celaenia
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| Celaenia | |
|---|---|
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| possibly C. excavata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
| Genus: | Celaenia Thorell, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. excavata (L. Koch, 1867) | |
| Species | |
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11, see text | |
Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]
