''Cydrela'' is a genus of spiders in the family
Zodariidae
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. It was first described in 1873 by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
.
, it contains 15 species from Asia and Africa.
Species
''Cydrela'' comprises the following species:
* ''
C. albopilosa''
Simon & Fage, 1922 —
Kenya
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* ''
C. decidua''
Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2006 —
Thailand
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* ''
C. friedlanderae''
Hewitt, 1914 —
South Africa
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* ''
C. insularis''
(Pocock, 1899) — Yemen (
Socotra
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)
* ''
C. kenti''
Lessert, 1933 —
Angola
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* ''
C. likui''
Lin & Li, 2023 —
Vietnam
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* ''
C. linzhiensis''
(Hu, 2001) —
China
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* ''
C. nasuta''
Lessert, 1936 —
Mozambique
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* ''
C. otavensis''
Lawrence, 1928 —
Namibia
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* ''
C. pristina''
Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2006 — Thailand
* ''
C. schoemanae''
Jocqué, 1991 — South Africa
* ''
C. spinifrons''
Hewitt, 1915 — South Africa
* ''
C. spinimana''
Pocock, 1898 — South Africa
* ''
C. stigmatica''
(Simon, 1876) — Tanzania (
Zanzibar
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)
* ''
C. unguiculata''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (
type
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) — South Africa
References
Zodariidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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