Cryptoerithus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Cryptoerithus
| authority = Rainbow, 1915
| type_species = C. occultus
| type_species_authority = Rainbow, 1915
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 19, see text
}}
Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915.{{cite journal| last=Rainbow| first=W. J.| year=1915| title=Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia| journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia| pages=772–793| volume=39}} Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.{{cite journal| last=Azevedo| first=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| doi-access=free}}
Species
{{as of|2020|03}} it contains nineteen species, found in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory:{{cite web| title=Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-04-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2445| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Cryptoerithus annaburroo Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
- Cryptoerithus griffith Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
- Cryptoerithus halifax Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
- Cryptoerithus halli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Cryptoerithus harveyi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Cryptoerithus hasenpuschi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Cryptoerithus lawlessi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Cryptoerithus melindae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Cryptoerithus nichtaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Cryptoerithus ninan Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Cryptoerithus nonaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
- Cryptoerithus nopaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Cryptoerithus nyetaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
- Cryptoerithus occultus Rainbow, 1915 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
- Cryptoerithus quamby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Cryptoerithus quobba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
- Cryptoerithus rough Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
- Cryptoerithus shadabi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
- Cryptoerithus stuart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
See also
References
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Category:Spiders of South Africa
Category:Taxa named by William Joseph Rainbow
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