Cithaeron is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cithaeronidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.
Species
it contains seven species:
- Cithaeron contentum <small>Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 2011</small> â South Africa
- Cithaeron delimbatus <small>Strand, 1906</small> â East Africa
- Cithaeron dippenaarae <small>Bosmans & Van Keer, 2015</small> â Morocco
- Cithaeron indicus <small>Platnick & Gajbe, 1994</small> â India
- Cithaeron jocqueorum <small>Platnick, 1991</small> â Ivory Coast
- C. persicus <small>Zamani & Marusik, 2025</small> â Iran
- Cithaeron praedonius <small>O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872</small> (type) â North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Middle East to India, Malaysia. Introduced to Brazil, Cuba, Australia, United States
- Cithaeron reimoseri <small>Platnick, 1991</small> â Eritrea, Brazil (probably introduced)
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