{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{For|the ancient Greek boxer|Creugas and Damoxenus}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Creugas | authority = Thorell, 1878<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''C. gulosus'' | type_species_authority = Thorell, 1878 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 20, see text | image = Creugas lisei 174022403.jpg | image_caption = ''Creugas lisei'' }} '''''Creugas''''' is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.<ref name=Thor1878>{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1878| title=Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari.| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=1–317| volume=13}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains twenty species in the Americas from the United States of America (USA) to Brazil, and one (''C. gulosus'') with a cosmopolitan distribution:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Creugas Thorell, 1878| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-19| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/533| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Creugas annamae'' <small>(Gertsch & Davis, 1940)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas apophysarius'' <small>(Caporiacco, 1947)</small> – Guyana *''Creugas bajulus'' <small>(Gertsch, 1942)</small> – Mexico, USA (California) *''Creugas bellator'' <small>(L. Koch, 1866)</small> – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador *''Creugas berlandi'' <small>Bonaldo, 2000</small> – Ecuador *''Creugas bicuspis'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas cinnamius'' <small>Simon, 1888</small> – Mexico *''Creugas comondensis'' <small>Jiménez, 2007</small> – Mexico *''Creugas epicureanus'' <small>(Chamberlin, 1924)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas falculus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas guaycura'' <small>Jiménez, 2008</small> – Mexico *''Creugas gulosus'' <small>Thorell, 1878</small> (type) – Southern America. Introduced to Africa, Myanmar, Australia, Pacific islands *''Creugas lisei'' <small>Bonaldo, 2000</small> – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina *''Creugas mucronatus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Costa Rica, Panama *''Creugas navus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas nigricans'' <small>(C. L. Koch, 1841)</small> – Mexico, Colombia *''Creugas plumatus'' <small>(L. Koch, 1866)</small> – Colombia *''Creugas praeceps'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico *''Creugas silvaticus'' <small>(Chickering, 1937)</small> – Panama *''Creugas uncatus'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899)</small> – Mexico
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Category:Corinnidae genera Category:Corinnidae Category:Cosmopolitan spiders Category:Spiders of Central America Category:Spiders of Mexico Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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