Coras (spider)

Coras is a genus of spiders in the family Amaurobiidae with 15 described species that occur in eastern North America from Nova Scotia south to Florida. They can be readily distinguished from other genera in the subfamily by the large anterior median eyes being larger than the anterior lateral eyes, whereas in other genera the reverse is true, along with a number of more technical reproductive features. The type species is Coras medicinalis.^[1]

Species

• Coras aerialis Muma, 1946 — USA
• Coras alabama Muma, 1946 — USA
• Coras angularis Muma, 1944 — USA
• Coras cavernorum Barrows, 1940 — USA
• Coras crescentis Muma, 1944 — USA
• Coras furcatus Muma, 1946 — USA
• Coras juvenilis (Keyserling, 1881) — USA
• Coras kisatchie Muma, 1946 — USA
• Coras lamellosus (Keyserling, 1887) — USA
• Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821) — USA, Canada
• Coras montanus (Emerton, 1890) — USA, Canada
• Coras parallelis Muma, 1944 — USA
• Coras perplexus Muma, 1946 — USA
• Coras taugynus Chamberlin, 1925 — USA
• Coras tennesseensis Muma, 1946 — USA

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History.