Cydrela
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| Male C. schoemanae | |
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| Male C. schoemanae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zodariidae |
| Genus: | Cydrela Thorell, 1873[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cydrela unguiculata | |
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Cydrela is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 1873 by Tamerlan Thorell.[2]
Most of its species are found in Africa, with four described species from Thailand to China.[1] C. insularis is endemic to Socotra.[1]
Species
[edit]As of September 2025[update], this genus includes fifteen species:[1]
- Cydrela albopilosa Simon & Fage, 1922 – Kenya
- Cydrela decidua Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2006 – Thailand
- Cydrela friedlanderae Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
- Cydrela insularis (Pocock, 1899) – Yemen (Socotra)
- Cydrela kenti Lessert, 1933 – Angola
- Cydrela likui Lin & Li, 2023 – Vietnam
- Cydrela linzhiensis (Hu, 2001) – China
- Cydrela nasuta Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
- Cydrela otavensis Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
- Cydrela pristina Dankittipakul & Jocqué, 2006 – Thailand
- Cydrela schoemanae Jocqué, 1991 – South Africa
- Cydrela spinifrons Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Cydrela spinimana Pocock, 1898 – South Africa
- Cydrela stigmatica (Simon, 1876) – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
- Cydrela unguiculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – South Africa (type species)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Genus Cydrela". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 28 September 2025.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1870). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Uppsala: C.J. Lundström. pp. 375–645. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
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