Coras (spider)

Coras (spider)
Coras
C. medicinalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Subfamily: Coelotinae
Genus: Coras
Simon, 1898
Type species
Tegeneria medicinalis
Hentz, 1821
Species

See text.
Diversity
15 species

Coras is a genus of spiders in the family Amaurobiidae with 15 described species that occur in eastern North America from Nova Scotia south to Florida. They can be readily distinguished from other genera in the subfamily by the large anterior median eyes being larger than the anterior lateral eyes, whereas in other genera the reverse is true, along with a number of more technical reproductive features. The type species is Coras medicinalis.[1]

Species

  • Coras aerialis Muma, 1946 — USA
  • Coras alabama Muma, 1946 — USA
  • Coras angularis Muma, 1944 — USA
  • Coras cavernorum Barrows, 1940 — USA
  • Coras crescentis Muma, 1944 — USA
  • Coras furcatus Muma, 1946 — USA
  • Coras juvenilis (Keyserling, 1881) — USA
  • Coras kisatchie Muma, 1946 — USA
  • Coras lamellosus (Keyserling, 1887) — USA
  • Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821) — USA, Canada
  • Coras montanus (Emerton, 1890) — USA, Canada
  • Coras parallelis Muma, 1944 — USA
  • Coras perplexus Muma, 1946 — USA
  • Coras taugynus Chamberlin, 1925 — USA
  • Coras tennesseensis Muma, 1946 — USA

References

  1. ^ Wang, Xin-ping (2002), "A Generic-level Revision of the Spider Subfamily Coelontinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (269) 


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