Citharognathus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Citharognathus_tongmianensis.jpg
|image_caption = Citharognathus tongmianensis
| taxon = Citharognathus
| authority = Pocock, 1895
| type_species = C. hosei
| type_species_authority = Pocock, 1895
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- C. hosei Pocock, 1895 – Borneo
- C. tongmianensis Zhu, Li & Song, 2002 – China
}}
Citharognathus is a genus of Asian tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1895.{{cite journal| last=Pocock| first=R. I.| year=1895| title=On a new and natural grouping of some of the Oriental genera of Mygalomorphae, with descriptions of new genera and species| journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History| pages=165–184| volume=15| issue=6| doi=10.1080/00222939508677863| url=https://zenodo.org/record/2380745| author-link=Reginald Innes Pocock}} {{as of|2022|08}} it contains two species: C. hosei and C. tongmianensis.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Citharognathus Pocock, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-04-10| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3339| doi=10.24436/2}}
Diagnosis
They can be distinguished by their clypeus, which is less than the with of the eye group. The leg 4 is also distinctly thicker and longer than leg 1.{{Cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Ming-Sheng |last2=Zhang |first2=Rui |date=2008 |title=Revision of the Theraphosid Spiders from China (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434306 |journal=The Journal of Arachnology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=425–447 |doi=10.1636/CA07-94.1 |jstor=25434306 |s2cid=86482441 |issn=0161-8202}}