Creugas Explained

Creugas is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty species in the Americas from Mexico to Brazil, and one (C. gulosus) with a cosmopolitan distribution:^[2]

• Creugas annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
• Creugas apophysarius (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
• Creugas bajulus (Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico
• Creugas bellator (L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
• Creugas berlandi Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
• Creugas bicuspis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas cinnamius Simon, 1888 – Mexico
• Creugas comondensis Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
• Creugas epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
• Creugas falculus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas guaycura Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
• Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
• Creugas lisei Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Creugas mucronatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Creugas navus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas nigricans (C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
• Creugas plumatus (L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
• Creugas praeceps (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
• Creugas silvaticus (Chickering, 1937) – Panama
• Creugas uncatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1878. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari.. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 1–317. 13.
2. Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-19. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.