Cebrennus Explained
Cebrennus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Cerbalopsis.[2]
The Moroccan flic-flac spider (C. rechenbergi), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014.[3]
Species
it contains nineteen species, found in Africa, Asia, on Malta, and in Spain:[4]
- Cebrennus aethiopicus Simon, 1880 – Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia
- Cebrennus atlas Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
- Cebrennus castaneitarsis Simon, 1880 – Algeria to Israel
- Cebrennus concolor (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
- Cebrennus cultrifer Fage, 1921 – Algeria
- Cebrennus flagellatus Jäger, 2014 – Afghanistan
- Cebrennus intermedius Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia
- Cebrennus kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Israel
- Cebrennus laurae Jäger, 2014 – Canary Is.
- Cebrennus logunovi Jäger, 2000 – Turkmenistan
- Cebrennus mayri Jäger, 2000 – Oman
- Cebrennus powelli Fage, 1921 – Morocco
- Cebrennus rambodjavani Moradmand, Zamani & Jäger, 2016 – Iran
- Cebrennus rechenbergi Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
- Cebrennus rungsi Jäger, 2000 – Morocco
- Cebrennus sumer Al-Khazali & Jäger, 2019 – Iraq
- Cebrennus tunetanus Simon, 1885 – Tunisia
- Cebrennus villosus (Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966) – Algeria, Tunisia
- Cebrennus wagae (Simon, 1874) (type) – Malta, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
See also
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1880. Description de Micrommata ophthalmica et de Cebrennus pulcherrimus, d'Algérie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64–65. 10. 5. Eugène_Simon.
- Jézéquel. J.-F.. Junqua. C.. 1966. Les araignées du Grand Erg occidental (Sahara Algérien). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 37. 969.
- Jäger. P.. 2014. Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species. Zootaxa. 3790. 2. 109–127. Peter_Jäger. 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.4. 24869871. free.
- Gen. Cebrennus Simon, 1880. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
