Celaenia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Celaenia |
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| possibly C. excavata | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
| Genus: | Celaenia Thorell, 1868 |
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| C. excavata (L. Koch, 1867)
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Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:
- Celaenia atkinsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
- Celaenia calotoides Rainbow, 1908 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Celaenia distincta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania)
- Celaenia dubia (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, New Zealand
- Celaenia hectori (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – New Zealand
- Celaenia olivacea (Urquhart, 1885) – New Zealand
- Celaenia penna (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tuberosa (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
- Celaenia tumidosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
- Celaenia voraginosa Urquhart, 1891 – Australia (Tasmania)
See also
In Spanish: Celaenia para niños
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