Cryptachaea

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Cryptachaea
Achaearanea.projectivulva.female.1.-.tanikawa.jpg
Female C. projectivulva
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Cryptachaea
Archer, 1946
Type species
Theridion catapetraeum
Gertsch & Archer, 1942
Species

See text

Diversity
ca. 70 species
web of P. projectivulva

Cryptachaea is a genus of spiders in the Theridiidae (tangle web spider) family.

Taxonomy[]

Many species in this genus used to reside in Achaearanea, which received a major revision in 2008.[1] The genus was originally established as a subgenus of Theridion.[2]

Distribution[]

This is mostly a New World genus, with many species in South America. One species is cosmopolitan, one species occurs in the whole Palearctic, another only in China.[1] C. veruculata was introduced to Europe from New Zealand.

Name[]

The genus name is a combination of Achaea, the old name of the genus Achaearanea, and Ancient Greek κρυπτός "hidden". The genus is called Iwama-himegumo zoku in Japanese.[2]

Species[]

  • (Berland, 1932) — Cosmopolitan
  • (Keyserling, 1884) — Colombia, Venezuela
  • (Keyserling, 1884) — Brazil
  • Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012[3]
  • (Levi, 1963) — USA
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Venezuela
  • (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) — Mexico
  • (Levi, 1963) — Ecuador
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
  • Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886) — cosmopolitan[4]
  • (Levi, 1963) — Colombia, Ecuador
  • (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929) — USA
  • (Levi, 1963) — Colombia
  • (Levi, 1963) — Chile
  • (Levi, 1955) — USA
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Roewer, 1942) — Ecuador, Peru
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1955) — USA
  • (Keyserling, 1884) — Peru
  • (Keyserling, 1890) — Australia, New Zealand[5]
  • (Taczanowski, 1873) — Panama to Argentina
  • Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012[3]
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil, Guyana
  • (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) — USA, Mexico
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • (Levi, 1963) — Peru
  • (Levi, 1963) — Peru
  • (Levi, 1963) — Chile
  • (Levi, 1959) — Mexico
  • (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — Brazil
  • (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
  • (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New Guinea
  • (Keyserling, 1884) — Venezuela to Peru, Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Ecuador
  • Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012[3]
  • (Levi, 1959) — Mexico
  • (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896) — Costa Rica, Panama
  • (Levi, 1963) — Ecuador
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Paraguay
  • (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Ecuador
  • (Keyserling, 1886) — Brazil, Uruguay
  • Cryptachaea porteri (Banks, 1896) — USA to Panama, West Indies
  • (Yoshida, 2001) — Japan
  • (O. P.-Cambridge, 1894) — Mexico
  • Cryptachaea pusillana (Roewer, 1942) — French Guiana
  • (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — Brazil
  • (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1963) — Paraguay
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • Cryptachaea riparia (Blackwall, 1834) — Palearctic
  • (Zhu & Zhang, 1992) — China
  • (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896) — Mexico to Venezuela
  • Cryptachaea rupicola (Emerton, 1882) — USA, Canada
  • (Levi, 1959) — Panama
  • (Levi, 1959) — Costa Rica
  • (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) — USA
  • (Levi, 1963) — Brazil
  • (Keyserling, 1884) — Guatemala to Peru
  • (Levi, 1963) — Venezuela
  • (Levi, 1959) — Trinidad, Peru
  • (Levi, 1963) — Peru
  • Cryptachaea veruculata (Urquhart, 1886) — Australia, New Zealand, England, Belgium
  • (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
  • (Levi, 1959) — Panama to Peru, Brazil

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Platnick 2009
  2. ^ a b Yoshida 2008
  3. ^ a b c Buckup, E.H.; Marques, M.A.L.; Rodrigues, E.N.L. 2012: Três novas espécies sul-americanas de Cryptachaea e acréscimos taxonômicos em Achaearanea (Araneae, Theridiidae) [Three new South American species of Cryptachaea and taxonomic additions in Achaearanea (Araneae, Theridiidae).] Iheringia série zoologia, 102(2): 206-211. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212012000200013
  4. ^ Vink, C.J.; Dupérré, N.; Paquin, P.; Fitzgerald, B.M.; Sirvid, P.J. 2009: The cosmopolitan spider Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart 1886) (Araneae: Theridiidae): redescription, including COI sequence, and new synonymy. Zootaxa, 2133: 55-63. Abstract & excerpt
  5. ^ Smith, H.M.; Vink, C.J.; Fitzgerald, B.M.; Sirvid, P.J. 2012: Redescription and generic placement of the spider Cryptachaea gigantipes (Keyserling, 1890) (Araneae: Theridiidae) and notes on related synanthropic species in Australasia. Zootaxa, 3507: 38-56. Preview PDF

References[]

  • Yoshida, Hajime (2008): A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 57(1): 37-40. PDF[permanent dead link]
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.


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