Cebrennus

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]

Cebrennus
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
19, see text
Synonyms[1]
Cerbalopsis Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966[2]

The Moroccan flic-flac spider (C. rechenbergi), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014.[5]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains nineteen species, found in Africa, Asia, 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 intermedius Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia
• 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

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. "Gen. Cebrennus Simon, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Jäger, P. (2000). "The huntsman spider genus Cebrennus: four new species and a preliminary key to known species". Revue Arachnologique. 13: 165.
3. Simon, E. (1880). "Description de Micrommata ophthalmica et de Cebrennus pulcherrimus, d'Algérie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (5): 64–65.
4. 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.
5. 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.