Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2]

Cithaeron
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cithaeronidae
Genus: Cithaeron
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1]
Type species
C. praedonius
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Species

7, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
  3. ^ "Genus Cithaeron". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-18.