Cethegus (spider)

Cethegus is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the curtain-web family Euagridae. It is endemic to Australia and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[3]

Cethegus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Euagridae
Genus:	Cethegus Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
C. lugubris Thorell, 1881
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Palaevagrus Simon, 1908[2]

Species

As of July 2020^[update] the genus contained twelve species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) or Western Australia (WA):^[1]

• Cethegus barraba Raven, 1984 – NSW
• Cethegus broomi (Hogg, 1901) – NSW
• Cethegus colemani Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus daemeli Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus elegans Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus fugax (Simon, 1908) – SA, WA
• Cethegus hanni Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus ischnotheloides Raven, 1985 – SA
• Cethegus lugubris Thorell, 1881 (type) – QLD
• Cethegus multispinosus Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus pallipes Raven, 1984 – QLD
• Cethegus robustus Raven, 1984 – QLD