Cryptoerithus
Sign in to saveCryptoerithus 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.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyGnaphosidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- Family
- Gnaphosidae
- Collections
- AM, QM, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Prodidomidae
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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)
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