Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]
| Creugas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Creugas Thorell, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. gulosus Thorell, 1878
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| Species | |
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20, see text | |
Species edit
As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty species in the Americas from Mexico to Brazil, and one (C. gulosus) with a cosmopolitan distribution:[1]
- Creugas annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
- Creugas apophysarius (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
- Creugas bajulus (Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico
- Creugas bellator (L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- Creugas berlandi Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
- Creugas bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Creugas cinnamius Simon, 1888 – Mexico
- Creugas comondensis Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
- Creugas epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
- Creugas falculus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Creugas guaycura Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
- Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
- Creugas lisei Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
- Creugas mucronatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
- Creugas navus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Creugas nigricans (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
- Creugas plumatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
- Creugas praeceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
- Creugas silvaticus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
- Creugas uncatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
References edit
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.