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    Creugas

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    For the ancient Greek boxer, see Creugas and Damoxenus.

    Creugas
    Scientific classification Edit this classification
    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
    Species

    20, see text

    Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]

    Species

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    As of April 2019 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

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    1. ^ 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.
    2. ^ 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.


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