Caesetius

Caesetius is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1893 by Eugène Louis Simon. As of 2024^[update], it contains 10 species from southern Africa.^[1]

Caesetius
Caesetius sp. from South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Zodariidae
Genus:	Caesetius Simon[1]
Type species
Caesetius murinus
Species
10, see text

Species

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes ten species:^[1]

• Caesetius bevisi (Hewitt, 1916) – Mozambique, South Africa
• Caesetius biprocessiger (Lawrence, 1952) – South Africa
• Caesetius flavoplagiatus Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa
• Caesetius globicoxis (Lawrence, 1942) – South Africa
• Caesetius inflatus Jocqué, 1991 – Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa
• Caesetius murinus Simon, 1893 – South Africa (type species)
• Caesetius politus Simon, 1893 – South Africa
• Caesetius rosei (Bacelar, 1953) – Mozambique
• Caesetius schultzei Simon, 1910 – South Africa
• Caesetius spenceri (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa