Cerionesta

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Cerionesta

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = C. luteola

| type_species_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1894)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| C. luteola|(Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – St. Vincent

| C. pacifica|(Banks, 1902) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)}}

}}

Cerionesta is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1901| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|06}} it contains only two species, found only on the Windward Islands and the Galápagos Islands: C. luteola and C. pacifica.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cerionesta Simon, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2565| doi=10.24436/2}}