Skip to content
EntityQ5409691· pop 9· linked from 4 articles

Cryptoerithus

Sign in to save

Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915. Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyGnaphosidae
Observations0

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
56
Family
Gnaphosidae
Collections
AM, QM, WAM
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Prodidomidae
Show 4 more facts
taxon name
Cryptoerithus
taxon rank
genus
endemic to
Australia
taxon author citation
Rainbow, 1915
Sources (2)

via Wikidata · CC0

~2 min read

Encyclopedic overview

2 sections
Contents
  • Species
  • References

Cryptoerithus is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915. Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.

==Species== it contains nineteen species, found in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory: Cryptoerithus annaburroo Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory) Cryptoerithus griffith Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia) Cryptoerithus halifax Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia) Cryptoerithus halli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) Cryptoerithus harveyi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) Cryptoerithus hasenpuschi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland) Cryptoerithus lawlessi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland) Cryptoerithus melindae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) Cryptoerithus nichtaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland) Cryptoerithus ninan Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) Cryptoerithus nonaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia) Cryptoerithus nopaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) Cryptoerithus nyetaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory) Cryptoerithus occultus Rainbow, 1915 (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia) Cryptoerithus quamby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland) Cryptoerithus quobba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia Cryptoerithus rough Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (South Australia) Cryptoerithus shadabi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia Cryptoerithus stuart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cryptoerithus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0