Cithaeron (spider)

Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.^[2]

Cithaeron
C. praedonius from Thailand
C. reimoseri from Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cithaeronidae
Genus:	Cithaeron O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1]
Type species
C. praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Species
7, see text

Species

As of September 2025^[update] it contains seven species:^[1]

• Cithaeron contentum Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011 – South Africa
• Cithaeron delimbatus Strand, 1906 – East Africa
• Cithaeron dippenaarae Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015 – Morocco
• Cithaeron indicus Platnick & Gajbe, 1994 – India
• Cithaeron jocqueorum Platnick, 1991 – Ivory Coast
• C. persicus Zamani & Marusik, 2025 — Iran
• Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (type) – North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States^[3]
• Cithaeron reimoseri Platnick, 1991 – Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)