Cebrennus

Cebrennus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Cerbalopsis.[4]

Cebrennus
C. rechenbergi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Cebrennus
Simon, 1880[1]
Type species
C. wagae
(Simon, 1874)
Species

19, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cerbalopsis Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966[2]

The Moroccan flic-flac spider (C. rechenbergi), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014.[5]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains nineteen species, found in Africa, Asia, on Malta, and in Spain:[1]

  • Cebrennus aethiopicus Simon, 1880 – Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia
  • Cebrennus atlas Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
  • Cebrennus castaneitarsis Simon, 1880 – Algeria to Israel
  • Cebrennus concolor (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
  • Cebrennus cultrifer Fage, 1921 – Algeria
  • Cebrennus flagellatus Jäger, 2014 – Afghanistan
  • Cebrennus intermedius Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia
  • Cebrennus kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Israel
  • Cebrennus laurae Jäger, 2014 – Canary Is.
  • Cebrennus logunovi Jäger, 2000 – Turkmenistan
  • Cebrennus mayri Jäger, 2000 – Oman
  • Cebrennus powelli Fage, 1921 – Morocco
  • Cebrennus rambodjavani Moradmand, Zamani & Jäger, 2016 – Iran
  • Cebrennus rechenbergi Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
  • Cebrennus rungsi Jäger, 2000 – Morocco
  • Cebrennus sumer Al-Khazali & Jäger, 2019 – Iraq
  • Cebrennus tunetanus Simon, 1885 – Tunisia
  • Cebrennus villosus (Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966) – Algeria, Tunisia
  • Cebrennus wagae (Simon, 1874) (type) – Malta, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
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See also

References
  1. "Gen. Cebrennus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Jäger, P. (2000). "The huntsman spider genus Cebrennus: four new species and a preliminary key to known species". Revue Arachnologique. 13: 165.
  3. Simon, E. (1880). "Description de Micrommata ophthalmica et de Cebrennus pulcherrimus, d'Algérie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (5): 64–65.
  4. Jézéquel, J.-F.; Junqua, C. (1966). "Les araignées du Grand Erg occidental (Sahara Algérien)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 37: 969.
  5. Jäger, P. (2014). "Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species". Zootaxa. 3790 (2): 109–127. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.4.


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