Coras (spider)

Genus of spiders

Coras

C. medicinalis
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Agelenidae
Genus:  | Coras
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
C. medicinalis

(Hentz, 1821)

Species

15, see text

Coras is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.[2] It has fifteen described species that occur in eastern North America from Nova Scotia south to Florida. They can be readily distinguished from other genera in the subfamily by their anterior median eyes being larger than the anterior lateral eyes, whereas in other genera the reverse is true, along with a number of more technical reproductive features. The type species is Coras medicinalis[3] (so named because its web was used in medicine[4]).

These spiders are frequently found at or near ground level, or in cellars of houses,[5] where they construct small and rather messy sheet webs on the ground and attached to nearby more elevated things. These webs are small in area and are connected to tubular retreats.[6]

The middle eyes in the lower or front row are as large as or larger than the eyes that flank them on the outside. The epigynum has projections at its forward corners. The legs have indistinct gray rings.[7]

Coras species, probably C. medicinalis Web and cocoon of C. medicinalis

## Species

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As of December 2024[update] it contains fifteen species:[1]

* Coras aerialis Muma, 1946 – USA
* Coras alabama Muma, 1946 – USA
* Coras angularis Muma, 1944 – USA
* Coras cavernorum Barrows, 1940 – USA
* Coras furcatus Muma, 1946 – USA
* Coras juvenilis (Keyserling, 1881) – USA
* Coras kisatchie Muma, 1946 – USA
* Coras lamellosus (Keyserling, 1887) – USA, Canada[8]
* Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821) – USA, Canada
* Coras montanus (Emerton, 1890) – USA, Canada
* Coras parallelis Muma, 1944 – USA
* Coras perplexus Muma, 1946 – USA
* Coras seorakensis Seo, 2014 – Korea,(named after Mount Seorak)
* Coras taugynus Chamberlin, 1925 – USA
* Coras tennesseensis Muma, 1946 – USA

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Coras Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
2. ^ Simon, E. (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
3. ^ Wang, Xin-ping (2002), "A Generic-level Revision of the Spider Subfamily Coelontinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 269 (269): 1, doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)269<0001:AGLROT>2.0.CO;2, S2CID 83668330
4. ^ Hentz, N. M. (1821). "A notice concerning the spiders whose web is used in medicine". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 2: 53–55. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
5. ^ Kaston, Benjamin Julian (1978). How to know the spiders (3rd ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co. p. 172\. ISBN 978-0-697-04898-1. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
6. ^ Foelix, Rainer F. (2011). Biology of Spiders (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 13, 149. ISBN 978-0-19-973482-5.
7. ^ Kaston, Benjamin Julian (1981). Page, Lou Williams (ed.). Spiders of Connecticut. Hartford, Connecticut: Department of Environmental Protection. pp. 280–282. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
8. ^ "Ojibway Prairie Complex Checklist of spiders (Araneae), 2014-2015" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-18.

Taxon identifiers

Coras|

* Wikidata: Q2997009
* Wikispecies: Coras
* ADW: Coras
* BioLib: 1025931
* BOLD: 5131
* BugGuide: 40879
* EoL: 113322
* GBIF: 2141848
* iNaturalist: 153495
* IRMNG: 1431799
* ITIS: 871922
* NCBI: 336640
* Open Tree of Life: 556119
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02017

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