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Cyrtarachne
Sign in to saveCyrtarachne is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
Cyrtarachne es un género de arañas araneomorfas de la familia Araneidae. Se encuentra en África, Asia, Oceanía y sur de Europa. Lista de especies Según The World Spider Catalog 12.0:[1] Cyrtarachne avimerdaria Tikader, 1963 Cyrtarachne bengalensis Tikader, 1961 Cyrtarachne bicolor Thorell, 1898 Cyrtarachne bigibbosa Simon, 1907 Cyrtarachne bilunulata Thorell, 1899 Cyrtarachne biswamoyi Tikader, 1961 Cyrtarachne bufo (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) Cyrtarachne cingulata Thorell, 1895 Cyrtarachne conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 Cyrtarachne dimidiata Thorell, 1895 Cyrtarachne fangchengensis Yin & Zhao, 1994 Cyrtarachne finniganae Lessert, 1936 Cyrtarachne flavopicta Thorell, 1899 Cyrtarachne friederici Strand, 1911 Cyrtarachne gibbifera Simon, 1899 Cyrtarachne gilva Yin & Zhao, 1994 Cyrtarachne gravelyi Tikader, 1961 Cyrtarachne grubei (Keyserling, 1864) Cyrtarachne guttigera Simon, 1909 Cyrtarachne heminaria Simon, 1909 Cyrtarachne histrionica Thorell, 1898 Cyrtarachne hubeiensis Yin & Zhao, 1994 Cyrtarachne ignava Thorell, 1895 Cyrtarachne inaequalis Thorell, 1895 Cyrtarachne invenusta Thorell, 1891 Cyrtarachne ixoides (Simon, 1870) Cyrtarachne lactea Pocock, 1898 Cyrt
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 38
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- EMEC, NHMUK, ZMUC, NMV, AM, USNM
- Recorded in
- French Southern Territories, Australia, Singapore, Samoa, Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Life style
- Description
- Species
- References
Cyrtarachne is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.
==Life style== Cyrtarachne construct “spanning thread-webs”, a basic orb-web, but the web diameter, sticky spiral spacing and viscid thread diameter differ from that of typical orb-webs.
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