Creugas

Creugas
Creugas lisei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Creugas Thorell, 1878
Type species
C. gulosus Thorell, 1878
Species
20, see text

Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains twenty species in the Americas from the United States of America (USA) to Brazil, and one (C. gulosus) with a cosmopolitan distribution:

• Creugas annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
• Creugas apophysarius (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
• Creugas bajulus (Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico, USA (California)
• Creugas bellator (L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
• Creugas berlandi Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
• Creugas bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas cinnamius Simon, 1888 – Mexico
• Creugas comondensis Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
• Creugas epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
• Creugas falculus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas guaycura Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
• Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
• Creugas lisei Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Creugas mucronatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Creugas navus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas nigricans (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
• Creugas plumatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
• Creugas praeceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas silvaticus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
• Creugas uncatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico

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