''Inthaeron'' is a

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araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species di ...

in the family

Cithaeronidae Cithaeronidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Simon in 1893 Female ''Cithaeron'' are about long, males about . They are pale yellowish, fast-moving spiders that actively hunt at night and rest during the day, buildin ...

, containing only two species. It was first described by

Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and Arachnology, arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History#Richard Gilder Gradua ...

in 1991, and has only been found in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. Females can be distinguished from those of its sister genus, ''

Cithaeron Cithaeron or Kithairon (Κιθαιρών, -ῶνος) is a mountain and mountain range about sixteen kilometres (ten miles) long in Central Greece (geographic region), Central Greece. The range is the physical boundary between Boeotia region in t ...

'', by the arrangement of cylindrical gland spigots on the posterior median

spinneret A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect. Some adult insects also have spinnerets, such as those borne on the forelegs of Embioptera. Spinnerets are usually on the underside of a spider's opisthosoma, and ar ...

s, appearing in two rows rather than in clusters. The name is derived from "

", the country it was first found in, and "Cithaeron", the name of the other genus of ''Cithaeronidae''.

Species

* '' Inthaeron longipes'' (Gravely, 1931) – India * ''

Inthaeron rossi ''Inthaeron rossi'' is a species of araneomorph spider endemic to India in the family Cithaeronidae, that was described by Norman I. Platnick in 1991. Description They are generally around long and wide. They have a greenish-brown cephalotho ...

'' Platnick, 1991 (

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) – India

References

Cithaeronidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of the Indian subcontinent {{Cithaeronidae-stub