Cebrennus
| Cebrennus | |
|---|---|
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| C. rechenbergi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Cebrennus Simon, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. wagae (Simon, 1874) | |
| Species | |
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19, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cebrennus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Cerbalopsis.[4]
The Moroccan flic-flac spider (C. rechenbergi), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014.[5]
Species
[edit]As of September 2025[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe (on Malta, and in Spain):[1]
- Cebrennus aethiopicus Simon, 1880 – Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia
- Cebrennus atlas Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
- Cebrennus castaneitarsis Simon, 1880 – Algeria to Israel
- Cebrennus concolor (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
- Cebrennus cultrifer Fage, 1921 – Algeria
- Cebrennus flagellatus Jäger, 2014 – Afghanistan
- Cebrennus herculis Domènech, Pérez-Gómez & Calatayud-Mascarell, 2025 – Spain
- Cebrennus intermedius Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia
- Cebrennus kazakhstanicus Fomichev & Marusik, 2022 – Kazakhstan
- Cebrennus kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Israel
- Cebrennus laurae Jäger, 2014 – Canary Is.
- Cebrennus logunovi Jäger, 2000 – Turkmenistan
- Cebrennus mayri Jäger, 2000 – Oman
- Cebrennus powelli Fage, 1921 – Morocco
- Cebrennus rambodjavani Moradmand, Zamani & Jäger, 2016 – Iran
- Cebrennus rechenbergi Jäger, 2014 – Morocco
- Cebrennus rungsi Jäger, 2000 – Morocco
- Cebrennus sumer Al-Khazali & Jäger, 2019 – Iraq
- Cebrennus tunetanus Simon, 1885 – Tunisia
- Cebrennus villosus (Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966) – Algeria, Tunisia
- Cebrennus wagae (Simon, 1874) (type) – Malta, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Cebrennus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 26.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
- ↑ Jäger, P. (2000). "The huntsman spider genus Cebrennus: four new species and a preliminary key to known species". Revue Arachnologique. 13: 165.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1880). "Description de Micrommata ophthalmica et de Cebrennus pulcherrimus, d'Algérie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (5): 64–65.
- ↑ Jézéquel, J.-F.; Junqua, C. (1966). "Les araignées du Grand Erg occidental (Sahara Algérien)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 37: 969.
- ↑ Jäger, P. (2014). "Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species". Zootaxa. 3790 (2): 109–127. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.4. PMID 24869871.
