{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Cesonia |image=Ground_Spider_-_Cesonia_bilineata,_Leesylvania_State_Park,_Woodbridge,_Virginia.jpg |image_caption=''C. bilineata'' from Virginia |authority=Simon, 1893<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''C. bilineata'' |type_species_authority=(Hentz, 1847) |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=31, see text |synonyms= *''Eilicina'' <small>Bryant, 1940</small><ref name=Plat1980>{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1980|title=A revision of the spider genus Cesonia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=165|page=339}}</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Cesonia''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.<ref name=Simo1893>{{cite book|last=Simon|first=E.|year=1893|title=Histoire naturelle das araignées|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains thirty-one species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Cesonia Simon, 1893|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/915|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Cesonia aspida'' <small>Chatzaki, 2002</small> – Greece (Crete), Turkey *''Cesonia bilineata'' <small>(Hentz, 1847)</small> (type) – North America *''Cesonia bixleri'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – USA *''Cesonia boca'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Panama *''Cesonia bryantae'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Jamaica *''Cesonia cana'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Jamaica *''Cesonia cerralvo'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Mexico *''Cesonia chickeringi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Jamaica *''Cesonia cincta'' <small>(Banks, 1909)</small> – Cuba *''Cesonia classica'' <small>Chamberlin, 1924</small> – California, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico *''Cesonia coala'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Mexico *''Cesonia cuernavaca'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Mexico *''Cesonia desecheo'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is. *''Cesonia ditta'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Dominican Rep. *''Cesonia elegans'' <small>(Simon, 1892)</small> – St. Vincent, Dominica *''Cesonia gertschi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Southern Arizona,<ref name=bugguide /> Mexico *''Cesonia grisea'' <small>(Banks, 1914)</small> – Cuba *''Cesonia irvingi'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1944)</small> – Southern tip of Florida,<ref name=bugguide /> Bahamas, Cuba *''Cesonia iviei'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Mexico *''Cesonia josephus'' <small>(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940)</small> – USA *''Cesonia lacertosa'' <small>Chickering, 1949</small> – Panama *''Cesonia leechi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Mexico *''Cesonia lugubris'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)</small> – Mexico, Honduras *''Cesonia maculata'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – St. Kitts and Nevis *''Cesonia nadleri'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Hispaniola *''Cesonia notata'' <small>Chickering, 1949</small> – Mexico, Panama *''Cesonia pudica'' <small>Chickering, 1949</small> – Panama *''Cesonia rothi'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Southern California<ref name=bugguide /> *''Cesonia sincera'' <small>Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936</small> – USA, Mexico *''Cesonia trivittata'' <small>Banks, 1898</small> – Southern California,<ref name=bugguide /> Mexico *''Cesonia ubicki'' <small>Platnick & Shadab, 1980</small> – Southern Arizona,<ref name=bugguide>{{cite web|title=Genus Cesonia|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-04|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/2009}}</ref> Mexico
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Category:Gnaphosidae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of North America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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