Genus of spiders
Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- Celaenia atkinsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
- Celaenia calotoides Rainbow, 1908 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Celaenia distincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania)
- Celaenia dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, New Zealand
- Celaenia hectori (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
- Celaenia olivacea (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
- Celaenia penna (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tuberosa (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tumidosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
- Celaenia voraginosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Celaenia Thorell, 1868". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1868). Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae.
