Cebrennus | |
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C. rechenbergi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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)
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Species | |
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]
As of September 2019 [update] it contains nineteen species, found in Africa, Asia, on Malta, and in Spain: [1]