Cerbalus

Cerbalus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897.^[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Marmarica.^[2]

Cerbalus
Cerbalus aravaensis in the Sands of Samar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Cerbalus Simon, 1897[1]
Type species
C. pulcherrimus (Simon, 1880)
Species
8, see text
Synonyms[1]
Marmarica Caporiacco, 1928[2]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains eight species, found in Africa, the Levant, and on the Canary Islands:^[1]

• Cerbalus alegranzaensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Cerbalus aravaensis Levy, 2007 – Israel, Jordan
• Cerbalus ergensis Jäger, 2000 – Tunisia
• Cerbalus negebensis Levy, 1989 – Israel
• Cerbalus pellitus Kritscher, 1960 – Egypt
• Cerbalus psammodes Levy, 1989 – Egypt, Israel
• Cerbalus pulcherrimus (Simon, 1880) (type) – North Africa
• Cerbalus verneaui (Simon, 1889) – Canary Is.

See also

• List of Sparassidae species