Celaenia

Genus of spiders

Celaenia

possibly C. excavata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Araneidae
Subfamily:  | Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus:  | Celaenia
Thorell, 1868[1]
Type species
C. excavata

(L. Koch, 1867)

Species

11, see text

Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]

## Species

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As of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:[1]

* Celaenia atkinsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
* Celaenia calotoides Rainbow, 1908 – Australia (New South Wales)
* Celaenia distincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania)
* Celaenia dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
* Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, New Zealand
* Celaenia hectori (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
* Celaenia olivacea (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
* Celaenia penna (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
* Celaenia tuberosa (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
* Celaenia tumidosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
* Celaenia voraginosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Celaenia Thorell, 1868". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
2. ^ Thorell, T. (1868). Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae.

Taxon identifiers

Celaenia|

* Wikidata: Q143997
* Wikispecies: Celaenia
* ADW: Celaenia
* AFD: Celaenia
* BioLib: 467573
* BOLD: 289963
* CoL: 3JXX
* EoL: 112777
* GBIF: 2158925
* iNaturalist: 379529
* IRMNG: 1325842
* ITIS: 848070
* NCBI: 1463316
* NZOR: df18b7f1-5e41-413e-9ee0-19339d9140e0
* Open Tree of Life: 3571511
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01453

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