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Cyrtognatha

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Cyrtognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881. It is a senior synonym of Agriognatha. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTetragnathidae

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Specimen records
19
Family
Tetragnathidae
Collections
MCZ, MZLU, MNRJ, USNM
Recorded in
Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, N/A, Brasil

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taxon
Parent taxon
Tetragnathidae
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taxon name
Cyrtognatha
taxon rank
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Cyrtognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881. It is a senior synonym of Agriognatha. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.

==Species== it contains twenty-one species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama: Cyrtognatha atopica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Argentina Cyrtognatha bella (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Costa Rica Cyrtognatha bryantae (Chickering, 1956) – Jamaica Cyrtognatha catia Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Colombia Cyrtognatha eberhardi Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil Cyrtognatha espanola (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola Cyrtognatha insolita (Chickering, 1956) – Costa Rica, Panama Cyrtognatha lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama Cyrtognatha leviorum Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Panama Cyrtognatha morona Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador Cyrtognatha nigrovittata Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Peru Cyrtognatha orphana Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil Cyrtognatha pachygnathoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – Costa Rica, Panama Cyrtognatha paradoxa Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico Cyrtognatha pathetica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Guatemala Cyrtognatha petila Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico Cyrtognatha quichua Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador Cyrtognatha rucilla (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola Cyrtognatha serrata Simon, 1898 – Martinique, St. Vincent Cyrtognatha simoni (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba Cyrtognatha waorani Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador

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