Cebrennus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880. It is considered a senior synonym of Cerbalopsis.
The Moroccan flic-flac spider (C. rechenbergi), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014.
Species it contains twenty-one species, found in Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe (on Malta, and in Spain): Cebrennus aethiopicus Simon, 1880 – Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia Cebrennus atlas Jäger, 2014 – Morocco Cebrennus castaneitarsis Simon, 1880 – Algeria to Israel Cebrennus concolor (Denis, 1947) – Egypt Cebrennus cultrifer Fage, 1921 – Algeria Cebrennus flagellatus Jäger, 2014 – Afghanistan Cebrennus herculis Domènech, Pérez-Gómez & Calatayud-Mascarell, 2025 – Spain Cebrennus intermedius Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia Cebrennus kazakhstanicus Fomichev & Marusik, 2022 – Kazakhstan Cebrennus kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Israel Cebrennus laurae Jäger, 2014 – Canary Is. Cebrennus logunovi Jäger, 2000 – Turkmenistan Cebrennus mayri Jäger, 2000 – Oman Cebrennus powelli Fage, 1921 – Morocco Cebrennus rambodjavani Moradmand, Zamani & Jäger, 2016 – Iran Cebrennus rechenbergi Jäger, 2014 – Morocco Cebrennus rungsi Jäger, 2000 – Morocco Cebrennus sumer Al-Khazali & Jäger, 2019 – Iraq Cebrennus tunetanus Simon, 1885 – Tunisia Cebrennus villosus (Jézéquel & Junqua, 1966) – Algeria, Tunisia Cebrennus wagae (Simon, 1874) (type) – Malta, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
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