Cryphoeca

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Cryphoeca

|image=Cryphoeca.silvicola.female.jpg

|image_caption=Cryphoeca silvicola

|authority=Thorell, 1870

|type_species=C. silvicola

|type_species_authority=(C. L. Koch, 1834)

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=12, see text

}}

Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.{{cite journal|last=Thorell|first=T.|year=1870|title=On European spiders.|journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis|pages=109–242|volume=7|issue=3}} The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.{{cite web|url=http://www.david.curtis.care4free.net/spiderfeb.htm|title=Spider of the Month - February|access-date=2016-09-19|publisher=Professor David Curtis}}

Species

{{as of|2019|05}} it contains twelve species and one subspecies:{{cite journal|title=Gen. Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1025|doi=10.24436/2}}

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