Creugas

Short description: Genus of spiders

Creugas

Scientific 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

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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/533. 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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