{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Cryptoerithus | authority = Rainbow, 1915<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''C. occultus'' | type_species_authority = Rainbow, 1915 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 19, see text }} '''''Cryptoerithus''''' is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1915.<ref name=Rain1915>{{cite journal| last=Rainbow| first=W. J.| year=1915| title=Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia| journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia| pages=772–793| volume=39}}</ref> Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.<ref name=Azev2018>{{cite journal| last=Azevedo| first=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2020|03}} it contains nineteen species, found in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Cryptoerithus Rainbow, 1915| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-04-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2445| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Cryptoerithus annaburroo'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Northern Territory) *''Cryptoerithus griffith'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Queensland, South Australia) *''Cryptoerithus halifax'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (South Australia) *''Cryptoerithus halli'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Cryptoerithus harveyi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Cryptoerithus hasenpuschi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Cryptoerithus lawlessi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Cryptoerithus melindae'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Cryptoerithus nichtaut'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Cryptoerithus ninan'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Cryptoerithus nonaut'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia) *''Cryptoerithus nopaut'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Cryptoerithus nyetaut'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Northern Territory) *''Cryptoerithus occultus'' <small>Rainbow, 1915</small> (type) – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia) *''Cryptoerithus quamby'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Cryptoerithus quobba'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Southern Australia *''Cryptoerithus rough'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (South Australia) *''Cryptoerithus shadabi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Southern Australia *''Cryptoerithus stuart'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Northern Territory)
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of South Africa Category:Taxa named by William Joseph Rainbow
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