Cithaeron (spider)
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Cithaeron
| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
| type_species = C. praedonius
| type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 7, see text
}}
Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1872| title=General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera.| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=212–354| volume=40| issue=1}}
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains seven species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-05-18| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/497| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa
- Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa
- Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015 – Morocco
- Cithaeron indicus Platnick & Gajbe, 1994 – India
- Cithaeron jocqueorum Platnick, 1991 – Ivory Coast
- Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (type) – North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States{{cite web| publisher=BugGuide| title=Genus Cithaeron| access-date=2019-05-18| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/739042/data}}
- Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 – Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)