Genus Cheiracanthium C.L. Koch, 1839

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cheiracanthium Koch, C.L. 1839. Die Arachniden. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Nürnberg : J.L. Lotzbeck Vol. 5 158 pp. [9].

  Type species:

   Cheiracanthium punctorium Villers, 1789 by original designation.
• Eutittha Thorell, T. 1878. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuanti. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 13: 1-317 [178].

  Type species:

   Eutittha insulana Thorell, 1878 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raven, R.J. & Hebron,W. 2024. A review of the spider genus Calamoneta Deeleman-Reinhold, a new genus in the Western Pacific and the genus Eutittha Thorell (Araneomorphae: Cheiracanthiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 65: 82-109 [84] (rejected the validity of Eutittha proposed by Esyunin & Zamani (2020))

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Tas: King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Esyunin, S.L. & Zamani, A. 2020. ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Natural History 54: 1293–1323

History of changes