Paracedicus

Paracedicus is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Desidae first described by Victor R. Fet in 1993.^[2] First placed as a subgenus of Cedicus, it was elevated to genus status in 2003.^[3]

Paracedicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Desidae
Genus:	Paracedicus Fet, 1993[1]
Type species
P. ephthalitus (Fet, 1993)
Species
7, see text

Species

As of November 2024^[update] it contains eight species:^[1]

• Paracedicus baram Levy, 2007 – Israel
• Paracedicus darvishi Mirshamsi, 2018 – Iran
• Paracedicus ephthalitus (Fet, 1993) (type) – Turkmenistan
• Paracedicus feti Marusik & Guseinov, 2003 – Azerbaijan
• Paracedicus gennadii (Fet, 1993) – Iran, Turkmenistan
• Paracedicus geshur Levy, 2007 – Israel
• Paracedicus kasatkini Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran
• Paracedicus turcicus Gündüz, 2023 – Turkey