Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]
| Celaenia | |
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| possibly C. excavata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
| Genus: | Celaenia Thorell, 1868[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. excavata (L. Koch, 1867)
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- Celaenia atkinsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
- Celaenia calotoides Rainbow, 1908 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Celaenia distincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania)
- Celaenia dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, New Zealand
- Celaenia hectori (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
- Celaenia olivacea (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
- Celaenia penna (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tuberosa (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tumidosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
- Celaenia voraginosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Celaenia Thorell, 1868". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1868). Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae.
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