Cryphoeca

Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2] The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.[3]

Cryphoeca
Cryphoeca silvicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cybaeidae
Genus: Cryphoeca
Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
C. silvicola
(C. L. Koch, 1834)
Species

12, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twelve species and one subspecies:[1]

  • Cryphoeca angularis Saito, 1934 – Japan
  • Cryphoeca brignolii Thaler, 1980 – Switzerland, Italy
  • Cryphoeca carpathica Herman, 1879 – Eastern Europe
  • Cryphoeca exlineae Roth, 1988 – USA
  • Cryphoeca lichenum L. Koch, 1876 – Germany, Austria
    • Cryphoeca l. nigerrima Thaler, 1978 – Germany, Austria
  • Cryphoeca montana Emerton, 1909 – USA, Canada
  • Cryphoeca nivalis Schenkel, 1919 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
  • Cryphoeca pirini (Drensky, 1921) – Bulgaria, Turkey
  • Cryphoeca shingoi Ono, 2007 – Japan
  • Cryphoeca shinkaii Ono, 2007 – Japan
  • Cryphoeca silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
  • Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey

References
  1. "Gen. Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 109–242.
  3. "Spider of the Month - February". Professor David Curtis. Retrieved 2016-09-19.


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