Cryphoeca

Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.^[2] The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.^[3]

Cryphoeca
Cryphoeca silvicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cybaeidae
Genus:	Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
C. silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834)
Species
12, see text

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twelve species and one subspecies:^[1]

• Cryphoeca angularis Saito, 1934 – Japan
• Cryphoeca brignolii Thaler, 1980 – Switzerland, Italy
• Cryphoeca carpathica Herman, 1879 – Eastern Europe
• Cryphoeca exlineae Roth, 1988 – USA
• Cryphoeca lichenum L. Koch, 1876 – Germany, Austria
  • Cryphoeca l. nigerrima Thaler, 1978 – Germany, Austria
• Cryphoeca montana Emerton, 1909 – USA, Canada
• Cryphoeca nivalis Schenkel, 1919 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
• Cryphoeca pirini (Drensky, 1921) – Bulgaria, Turkey
• Cryphoeca shingoi Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Cryphoeca shinkaii Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Cryphoeca silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
• Cryphoeca thaleri Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey