''Creugas'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
corinnid sac spiders first described 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 ...
in 1878.
Species
it contains twenty species in the Americas from Mexico to Brazil, and one (''C. gulosus'') with a cosmopolitan distribution:
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Creugas annamae''
( Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – Mexico
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Creugas apophysarius''
( Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
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Creugas bajulus''
(Gertsch, 1942) – Mexico
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Creugas bellator''
( L. Koch, 1866) – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
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Creugas berlandi''
Bonaldo, 2000 – Ecuador
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Creugas bicuspis''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
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Creugas cinnamius''
Simon, 1888 – Mexico
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Creugas comondensis''
Jiménez, 2007 – Mexico
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Creugas epicureanus''
(Chamberlin
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, 1924) – Mexico
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Creugas falculus''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
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Creugas guaycura''
Jiménez, 2008 – Mexico
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Creugas gulosus''
Thorell, 1878 (
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) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands
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Creugas lisei''
Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
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Creugas mucronatus''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Costa Rica, Panama
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Creugas navus''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
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Creugas nigricans''
( C. L. Koch, 1841) – Mexico, Colombia
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Creugas plumatus''
(L. Koch, 1866) – Colombia
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Creugas praeceps''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
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Creugas silvaticus''
( Chickering, 1937) – Panama
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Creugas uncatus''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899) – Mexico
References
Corinnidae genera
Corinnidae
Cosmopolitan spiders
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of Mexico
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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