Cryphoeca Explained

Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.^[1] The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.^[2]

Species

it contains twelve species and one subspecies:^[3]

• Cryphoeca angularis Saito, 1934 – Japan
• Cryphoeca brignolii Thaler, 1980 – Switzerland, Italy
• Cryphoeca carpathica Herman, 1879 – Eastern Europe
• Cryphoeca exlineae Roth, 1988 – USA
• Cryphoeca lichenum L. Koch, 1876 – Germany, Austria
  • Cryphoeca l. nigerrima Thaler, 1978 – Germany, Austria
• Cryphoeca montana Emerton, 1909 – USA, Canada
• Cryphoeca nivalis Schenkel, 1919 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
• Cryphoeca pirini (Drensky, 1921) – Bulgaria, Turkey
• Cryphoeca shingoi Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Cryphoeca shinkaii Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Cryphoeca silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
• Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1870. On European spiders.. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 109–242. 7. 3.
2. Web site: Spider of the Month - February. 2016-09-19. Professor David Curtis.
3. Gen. Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-07. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.