Cryphoeca is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. The name means hidden, in reference to its preference for hiding under loose bark or in stone walls.
Species
it contains twelve species and one subspecies:
- Cryphoeca angularis <small>Saito, 1934</small> â Japan
- Cryphoeca brignolii <small>Thaler, 1980</small> â Switzerland, Italy
- Cryphoeca carpathica <small>Herman, 1879</small> â Eastern Europe
- Cryphoeca exlineae <small>Roth, 1988</small> â USA
- Cryphoeca lichenum <small>L. Koch, 1876</small> â Germany, Austria
- Cryphoeca l. nigerrima <small>Thaler, 1978</small> â Germany, Austria
- Cryphoeca montana <small>Emerton, 1909</small> â USA, Canada
- Cryphoeca nivalis <small>Schenkel, 1919</small> â Switzerland, Austria, Italy
- Cryphoeca pirini <small>(Drensky, 1921)</small> â Bulgaria, Turkey
- Cryphoeca shingoi <small>Ono, 2007</small> â Japan
- Cryphoeca shinkaii <small>Ono, 2007</small> â Japan
- Cryphoeca silvicola <small>(C. L. Koch, 1834)</small> (type) â Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
- Cryphoeca thaleri <small>Wunderlich, 1995</small> â Turkey
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