Cerocida

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cerocida.strigosa.png | image_caption = Male ''Cerocida strigosa'' | taxon = Cerocida | authority = Simon, 1894 | range_map = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Cerocida ducke'' <small>Marques & Buckup, 1989</small> *''Cerocida strigosa'' <small>Simon, 1894</small> }}

'''''Cerocida''''' is a spider genus known only from tropical South America.

Both sexes of ''C. strigosa'' have a cephalothorax with posterior stalk and raised reticulate pattern, and long legs. The female has a body length of 1.5mm, while males are even 1.7mm; normally spider males are at least slightly smaller than females. Specimens were collecting by sifting litter. The species is probably an ant mimic.

==References== * {{aut|Levi, Herbert W.}} (1963): The Spider Genera ''Cerocida'', ''Hetschkia'', ''Wirada'' and ''Craspedisia'' (Araneae: Theridiidae). ''Psyche'' '''70''': 170-179. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926103958/http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/70/70-170.pdf PDF] * {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.

Category:Spiders of South America Category:Theridiidae Category: Theridiidae genera Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon