Ceraarachne

Ceraarachne is a genus of South American crab spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1880.^[3]

Ceraarachne
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Ceraarachne Keyserling, 1880[1]
Type species
C. varia Keyserling, 1880
Species
4, see text
Synonyms[1]
Synstrophius Mello-Leitão, 1925[2]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains four species, found in Colombia and Brazil:^[1]

• Ceraarachne blanci (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
• Ceraarachne germaini Simon, 1886 – Brazil
• Ceraarachne goyannensis Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Ceraarachne varia Keyserling, 1880 (type) – Colombia

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Ceraarachne Keyserling, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
2. Teixeira, R. A.; Campos, L. A.; Lise, A. A. (2014). "Phylogeny of Aphantochilinae and Strophiinae sensu Simon (Araneae; Thomisidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 43 (1): 74. doi:10.1111/zsc.12036.
3. Keyserling, E. (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas, I. Laterigradae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. pp. 1–283. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.

Further reading

• Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil". Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 31: 9–359.
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1925). "Pequenas notas arachnologicas". Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1: 455–463.
• Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917). "Generos e especies novas de araneidos". Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro. 1: 3–19.
• Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.