Cryptachaea genus of spiders in the Theridiidae (tangle web spider) family.
Many species in this genus used to reside in Achaearanea Theridion
This is mostly a New World genus, with many species in South America . One species is cosmopolitan, one species occurs in the whole Palearctic, another only in China . C. veruculata was introduced to Europe from New Zealand .
The genus name is a combination of Achaea , the old name of the genus Achaearanea , and Ancient Greek κρυπτός "hidden". The genus is called Iwama-himegumo zoku in Japanese .
Cryptachaea acoreensis (Berland, 1932) — CosmopolitanCryptachaea alacris (Keyserling, 1884) — Colombia, VenezuelaCryptachaea altiventer (Keyserling, 1884) — BrazilCryptachaea amazonas Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 Cryptachaea ambera (Levi, 1963) — USACryptachaea analista (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea anastema (Levi, 1963) — VenezuelaCryptachaea azteca (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) — MexicoCryptachaea banosensis (Levi, 1963) — EcuadorCryptachaea barra (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea bellula (Keyserling, 1891) — BrazilCryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886) — cosmopolitanCryptachaea caliensis (Levi, 1963) — Colombia, EcuadorCryptachaea canionis (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929) — USACryptachaea caqueza (Levi, 1963) — ColombiaCryptachaea chilensis (Levi, 1963) — ChileCryptachaea chiricahua (Levi, 1955) — USACryptachaea cinnabarina (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea diamantina (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea dromedariformis (Roewer, 1942) — Ecuador, PeruCryptachaea eramus (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea fresno (Levi, 1955) — USACryptachaea gigantea (Keyserling, 1884) — PeruCryptachaea gigantipes (Keyserling, 1890) — Australia, New ZealandCryptachaea hirta (Taczanowski, 1873) — Panama to ArgentinaCryptachaea ingijonathorum Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 Cryptachaea inops (Levi, 1963) — Brazil, GuyanaCryptachaea insulsa (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) — USA, MexicoCryptachaea isana (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea jequirituba (Levi, 1963) — Brazil, Paraguay, ArgentinaCryptachaea kaspi (Levi, 1963) — PeruCryptachaea koepckei (Levi, 1963) — PeruCryptachaea lota (Levi, 1963) — ChileCryptachaea manzanillo (Levi, 1959) — MexicoCryptachaea maraca (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — BrazilCryptachaea maxima (Keyserling, 1891) — BrazilCryptachaea meraukensis (Chrysanthus, 1963) — New GuineaCryptachaea migrans (Keyserling, 1884) — Venezuela to Peru, BrazilCryptachaea milagro (Levi, 1963) — EcuadorCryptachaea maldonado Buckup, Marques & Rodrigues, 2012 Cryptachaea nayaritensis (Levi, 1959) — MexicoCryptachaea oblivia (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896) — Costa Rica, PanamaCryptachaea orana (Levi, 1963) — EcuadorCryptachaea pallipera (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea parana (Levi, 1963) — ParaguayCryptachaea passiva (Keyserling, 1891) — BrazilCryptachaea pilaton (Levi, 1963) — EcuadorCryptachaea pinguis (Keyserling, 1886) — Brazil, UruguayCryptachaea porteri (Banks, 1896) — USA to Panama, West IndiesCryptachaea projectivulva (Yoshida, 2001) — JapanCryptachaea pura (O. P.-Cambridge, 1894) — MexicoCryptachaea pusillana (Roewer, 1942) — French GuianaCryptachaea pydanieli (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — BrazilCryptachaea rafaeli (Buckup & Marques, 1991) — BrazilCryptachaea rapa (Levi, 1963) — ParaguayCryptachaea rioensis (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea riparia (Blackwall, 1834) — PalearcticCryptachaea rostra (Zhu & Zhang, 1992) — ChinaCryptachaea rostrata (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896) — Mexico to VenezuelaCryptachaea rupicola (Emerton, 1882) — USA, CanadaCryptachaea schneirlai (Levi, 1959) — PanamaCryptachaea schraderorum (Levi, 1959) — Costa RicaCryptachaea serenoae (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) — USACryptachaea sicki (Levi, 1963) — BrazilCryptachaea taeniata (Keyserling, 1884) — Guatemala to PeruCryptachaea tovarensis (Levi, 1963) — VenezuelaCryptachaea trinidensis (Levi, 1959) — Trinidad, PeruCryptachaea uviana (Levi, 1963) — PeruCryptachaea veruculata (Urquhart, 1886) — Australia, New Zealand, England, BelgiumCryptachaea vivida (Keyserling, 1891) — BrazilCryptachaea zonensis (Levi, 1959) — Panama to Peru, Brazil
