Creugas

Creugas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Creugas ; Thorell, 1878
Type species
	C. gulosus ; Thorell, 1878
Species
	20, see text

Last updated July 22, 2025

Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.^[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains twenty species in the Americas from the United States of America (USA) to Brazil, and one (C. gulosus) with a cosmopolitan distribution:^[1]

Creugas annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
Creugas apophysarius (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
Creugas bajulus (Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico, USA (California)
Creugas bellator (L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
Creugas berlandi Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
Creugas bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
Creugas cinnamius Simon, 1888 – Mexico
Creugas comondensis Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
Creugas epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
Creugas falculus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
Creugas guaycura Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
Creugas lisei Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
Creugas mucronatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
Creugas navus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
Creugas nigricans (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
Creugas plumatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
Creugas praeceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
Creugas silvaticus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
Creugas uncatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico

References

1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-19.
↑ Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-19.

[Thor1878-2] Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.

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