Cryptoerithus

Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915.^[2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.^[3]

Cryptoerithus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915[1]
Type species
C. occultus Rainbow, 1915
Species
19, see text

Species

As of March 2020^[update] it contains nineteen species, found in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory:^[1]

• Cryptoerithus annaburroo Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
• Cryptoerithus griffith Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
• Cryptoerithus halifax Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
• Cryptoerithus halli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Cryptoerithus harveyi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Cryptoerithus hasenpuschi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Cryptoerithus lawlessi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Cryptoerithus melindae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Cryptoerithus nichtaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Cryptoerithus ninan Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Cryptoerithus nonaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
• Cryptoerithus nopaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Cryptoerithus nyetaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
• Cryptoerithus occultus Rainbow, 1915 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
• Cryptoerithus quamby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Cryptoerithus quobba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
• Cryptoerithus rough Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
• Cryptoerithus shadabi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
• Cryptoerithus stuart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)

See also

• List of Gnaphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
2. Rainbow, W. J. (1915). "Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39: 772–793.
3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.