Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026171

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Described:

Distribution: North Africa, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to USA, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Cuba, Brazil, Australia (Northern Territory)


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Tephlea agelenoides (lost) - (Platnick, 1991c)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Cithaeron pallidus - (Platnick, 1991c)
  • Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Tephlea limbata - (Platnick, 1991c)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2f - (Platnick, 1991c)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f of Tephlea semilimbata - (Platnick, 1991c)
Taxonomic References
Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 273 (Df) Original description
Tephlea agelenoides Simon, 1878a: 207 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054724]
Tephlea limbata Simon, 1885h: 36 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054721]
Tephlea semilimbata Simon, 1890a: 91 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054723]
Cithaeron limbatus Simon, 1893a: 385, f. 345 (m)
Cithaeron praedonius Simon, 1893a: 386, f. 341-344 (Dm, S of Tephlea agelenoides)
Cythaeron pallidus Denis, 1953b: 340, f. 5 (Df, lapsus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054722]
Cithaeron praedonius Platnick, 1991c: 6, f. 9-13 (mf, S of Cithaeron limbatus, C. pallidus and C. semilimbatus)
Cithaeron praedonius Platnick, 2002: 21, f. 36-40 (mf)
Cithaeron praedonius Carvalho, Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2007: 512, f. 1-4 (f)
Cithaeron praedonius Akpinar & Varol, 2012: 105, f. 1-5 (mf)
Cithaeron praedonius Ruiz & Bonaldo, 2013: 92, f. 1-8 (mf)
Cithaeron praedonius Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013b: 89, f. 1-4 (f)
Cithaeron praedonius Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 599, f. 8a, 9b, 15b, 19c, 20b, S8d, S11a (mf)
Cithaeron praedonius Özkütük et al., 2019d: 55, f. 1, 2A-D (f)
Cithaeron praedonius Rivera-Quiroz et al., 2020: 5, f. 3h (f; = Ruiz & Bonaldo, 2013: f. 8)
Cithaeron praedonius Cubas Rodríguez et al., 2022: 263, f. 7-10 (f)
Cithaeron praedonius Miranda, Pérez-Pérez & Bermúdez, 2024: 140, f. 1-6 (f)
References

Akpınar, A. & Varol, İ. (2012). First record of family Cithaeronidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Turkey. Serket 13: 104-107. -- Show included taxa

Azevedo, G. H. F., Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018b). Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics 34(6): 579-626. doi: 10.1111/cla.12226 -- Show included taxa

Carvalho, L. S., Bonaldo, A. B. & Brescovit, A. D. (2007). The first record of the family Cithaeronidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea) to the new world. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24: 512-514. -- Show included taxa

Cubas-Rodríguez, A. M., Lara-Cabello, V. C., Desales-Lara, M. A. & Chamé-Vázquez, D. (2022). Elusive introduced and synanthropic spiders (Araneae: Cithaeronidae, Gnaphosidae): new records from Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 97(4, 2021): 261-265. doi: 10.3956/2021-97.4.261 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1953b). Spiders of the Yemen, southwest Arabia, collected by the U.S. Naval Medical mission to the Yemen, 1951. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 72(4): 337-343. doi: 10.2307/3223479 -- Show included taxa

Miranda, R. J., Pérez-Pérez, J. I. & Bermúdez C., S. E. (2024). Primer registro Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) en Panamá. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 140-142. -- Show included taxa

Özkütük, R. S., Gücel, S., Fuller, Ö. Ö. & Kunt, K. B. (2019d). Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) in Cyprus. Serket 17(1): 54-57. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (1991c). A revision of the ground spider family Cithaeronidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). American Museum Novitates 3018: 1-13. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (2002). A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 271: 1-243. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Rivera-Quiroz, F. A., Schilthuizen, M., Petcharad, B. & Miller, J. A. (2020). Imperfect and askew: a review of asymmetric genitalia in araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). PLoS One 15(6, e0220354): 1-26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220354 -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2013). Vagabond but elusive: two newcomers to the eastern Amazon (Araneae: Cithaeronidae; Prodidomidae). Zootaxa 3694: 92-96. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2013b). First record of the family Cithaeronidae Simon (Arachnida, Araneae) from Cuba, in the Caribbean region. Novitates Caribaea 6: 89-91. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [[pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1890a). Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 10: 77-124. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-07-14 New taxonomic reference entry Miranda, Pérez-Pérez & Bermúdez, 2024
2024-07-14 Species distribution update Miranda, Pérez-Pérez & Bermúdez, 2024 Old value
2022-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Cubas Rodríguez et al., 2022
2022-01-26 Species distribution update Cubas Rodríguez et al., 2022 Old value
2020-06-22 New taxonomic reference entry Rivera-Quiroz et al., 2020
2019-11-11 New taxonomic reference entry Özkütük et al., 2019d
2019-05-23 Species distribution update Old value
2018-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b

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