Cethegus (spider)

Cethegus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Euagridae
Genus:	Cethegus ; Thorell, 1881
Type species
	C. lugubris ; Thorell, 1881
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Palaevagrus Simon, 1908;

Last updated August 17, 2025

Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It is endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[3]

Species

As of July 2020^[update] the genus contained twelve species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):^[1]

Cethegus barraba Raven, 1984 – NSW
Cethegus broomi (Hogg, 1901) – NSW
Cethegus colemani Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus daemeli Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus elegans Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus fugax (Simon, 1908) – SA, WA
Cethegus hanni Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus ischnotheloides Raven, 1985 – SA
Cethegus lugubris Thorell, 1881 (type) – QLD
Cethegus multispinosus Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus pallipes Raven, 1984 – QLD
Cethegus robustus Raven, 1984 – QLD

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Cethegus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-13.
↑ Main, B. Y. (1960). "The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae)". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 43: 30.
↑ Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 3 "Gen. Cethegus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-13.

[Main1960-2] Main, B. Y. (1960). "The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae)". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 43: 30.

[Thor1881-3] Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.

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