Cethegus (spider)
Genus of spiders
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Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It is endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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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