Crustulina

Crustulina
C. guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Crustulina Menge, 1868 [1]
Type species
C. guttata (Wider, 1834)
Species
17, see text

Crustulina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains seventeen species, found in Oceania, Africa, Asia, North America, and Europe: ^[1]

• Crustulina albovittata (Thorell, 1875) – Ukraine
• Crustulina altera Gertsch & Archer, 1942 – USA
• Crustulina ambigua Simon, 1889 – Madagascar
• Crustulina bicruciata Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Crustulina conspicua (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Egypt, Israel, Syria
• Crustulina erythropus (Lucas, 1846) – Morocco, Algeria
• Crustulina grayi Chrysanthus, 1975 – New Guinea
• Crustulina guttata (Wider, 1834) (type) – Canary Is., Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
• Crustulina hermonensis Levy & Amitai, 1979 – Israel
• Crustulina incerta Tullgren, 1910 – Tanzania
• Crustulina jeanneli Berland, 1920 – East Africa
• Crustulina lugubris Chrysanthus, 1975 – New Guinea
• Crustulina molesta (Pavesi, 1883) – Ethiopia
• Crustulina obesa Berland, 1920 – East Africa
• Crustulina scabripes Simon, 1881 – Mediterranean
• Crustulina starmuehlneri Kritscher, 1966 – New Caledonia
• Crustulina sticta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan

In synonymy:

• C. argusLucas, 1846 = Crustulina scabripesSimon, 1881
• C. borealisBanks, 1900 = Crustulina sticta(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861)
• C. lineiventris(Pavesi, 1884) = Crustulina scabripesSimon, 1881
• C. nitidaSimon, 1884 = Crustulina scabripesSimon, 1881
• C. pallipesBanks, 1906 = Crustulina sticta(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861)
• C. rugosa(Thorell, 1875) = Crustulina sticta(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861)

References

1. "Gen. Crustulina Menge, 1868". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-12.
2. Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 153–218.