Cerbalus Explained

Cerbalus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897.^[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Marmarica.^[2]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Africa, Israel, Jordan, and on the Canary Islands:^[3]

• Cerbalus alegranzaensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Cerbalus aravaensis Levy, 2007 – Israel, Jordan
• Cerbalus ergensis Jäger, 2000 – Tunisia
• Cerbalus negebensis Levy, 1989 – Israel
• Cerbalus pellitus Kritscher, 1960 – Egypt
• Cerbalus psammodes Levy, 1989 – Egypt, Israel
• Cerbalus pulcherrimus (Simon, 1880) (type) – North Africa
• Cerbalus verneaui (Simon, 1889) – Canary Is.

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Levy. G.. 1989. The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London. 217. 141. 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1989.tb02480.x.
3. Gen. Cerbalus Simon, 1897. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.