Cryptoerithus

Cryptoerithus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Cryptoerithus; Rainbow, 1915
Type species
	C. occultus; Rainbow, 1915
Species
	19, see text

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

As of March 2020^[update] 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)

References

1 2 "Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
↑ Rainbow, W. J. (1915). "Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39: 772–793.
↑ Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-14.

[Rain1915-2] Rainbow, W. J. (1915). "Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39: 772–793.

[Azev2018-3] Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.