Cebrenninus Explained

Cebrenninus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by S. P. Benjamin in 2016.^[1] It is a senior synonym of Ascurisoma.

Species

it contains ten species, found in Asia and Africa:^[2]

• Cebrenninus banten Benjamin, 2016 – Indonesia (Java)
• Cebrenninus berau Benjamin, 2016 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
• Cebrenninus kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines (Luzon)
• Cebrenninus magnus Benjamin, 2016 – China, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia (Java), Borneo
• Cebrenninus phaedrae Benjamin, 2016 – Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
• Cebrenninus rugosus Simon, 1887 (type) – China, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Borneo, Philippines
• Cebrenninus schawalleri Benjamin, 2016 – Philippines
• Cebrenninus srivijaya Benjamin, 2011 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Cebrenninus striatipes (Simon, 1897) – West Africa, Sri Lanka
• Cebrenninus tangi Benjamin, 2016 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)

Formerly included:

• C. laevis (Thorell, 1890) (Transferred to Crockeria)

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Book: Simon, E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Thorell. T.. 1890. Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 132–172. 30.
• Benjamin. S. P.. 2011. Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 1–108. 3080. 10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
• Tang. G.. etal. 2009. Six crab spiders of the family Stephanopinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 39–50. 57.

Notes and References

1. Benjamin. S. P.. 2016. Revision of Cebrenninus Simon, 1887 with description of one new genus and six new species (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 179–200. 123. 1.
2. Gen. Cebrenninus Simon, 1887. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-28. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.