Cethegus (spider)
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Cethegus
| authority = Thorell, 1881
| type_species = C. lugubris
| type_species_authority = Thorell, 1881
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms =
- Palaevagrus Simon, 1908{{cite journal| last=Main| first=B. Y.| year=1960| title=The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae)| journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia| volume=43| page=30}}
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Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It s endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1881| title=Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=1–727| volume=17}}
Species
{{as of|2020|07}} the genus contained twelve species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cethegus Thorell, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 21.0| accessdate=2020-07-13| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/803| doi=10.24436/2}}
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- 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
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