Cepheia Explained

Cepheia is a monotypic genus of European araneomorph spiders in the family Synaphridae containing the single species, Cepheia longiseta.^[1] It was first described as Theonoe longiseta in 1881,^[2] and was moved to its own genus in 1894.^[3] Originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, it was moved several times^{[4] [5]} before settling in the Synaphridae in 2003.^[6] Paolo Brignoli noted that it is an unidentifiable theridiid.^[7]

See also

• List of Synaphridae species

Notes and References

1. Gen. Cepheia Simon, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
2. Book: Simon, E.. 1881. Les arachnides de France. 132. Eugène Simon.
3. Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. 589. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène Simon.
4. Levi. H. W.. Levi. L. R.. 1962. The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127. 18. Herbert Walter Levi. Herbert Walter Levi.
5. Forster. R. R.. Platnick. N. I.. 1977. A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates. 2619. 2. Raymond Robert Forster. Norman I. Platnick.
6. Marusik. Y. M.. Lehtinen. P. T.. 2003. Synaphridae Wunderlich, 1986 (Aranei: Araneoidea), a new family status, with a description of a new species from Turkmenistan. Arthropoda Selecta. 11. 145. Pekka T. Lehtinen.
7. Brignoli. P. M.. 1970. Contribution à la connaissance des Symphytognathidae paléarctiques (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 41. 1413. Paolo Brignoli.