Cithaeron (spider)

Cithaeron
C. praedonius from Thailand
C. reimoseri from Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cithaeronidae
Genus:	Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 [1]
Type species
C. praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Species
7, see text

Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872. ^[2]

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] it contains seven species: ^[1]

• Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa
• Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa
• Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015 – Morocco
• Cithaeron indicus Platnick & Gajbe, 1994 – India
• Cithaeron jocqueorum Platnick, 1991 – Ivory Coast
• C. persicus Zamani & Marusik, 2025 — Iran
• Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (type) – North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States ^[3]
• Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 – Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)

References

1. "Gen. Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-09-18.
2. 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.
3. "Genus Cithaeron". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-18.