Celaenia

Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.^[2]

Celaenia
possibly C. excavata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Subfamily:	Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus:	Celaenia Thorell, 1868[1]
Type species
C. excavata (L. Koch, 1867)
Species
11, see text

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)