Cyrtophorinae

Cyrtophorinae
For the fly genus, see Cyrtophorina.
Cyrtophorinae
Cyrtophora moluccensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamily: Araneoidea
Family: Araneidae
Subfamily: Cyrtophorinae
Simon, 1895
Genus

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Cyrtophorinae is a subfamily of spiders in the orb-weaver spider family.[1] Unlike other orb-weavers, spiders belonging to Cyrtophorinae build horizontal, finely meshed platforms within a tangle of irregular webs. The usually dome-shaped platform is a non-sticky orb web.[2]

Cyrtophorinae includes the following six genera:[3]

  • Cyrtobill Framenau & Scharff, 2009[4]
  • Cyrtophora Simon, 1864 (Tent-web spiders)
  • Kapogea Levi, 1997
  • Mecynogea Simon, 1903
  • Megaraneus Lawrence, 1968
  • Manogea Levi, 1997

See also

References

  1. ^ Jonathan A. Coddington (1989). "Spinneret Silk Spigot Morphology: Evidence for the Monophyly of Orbweaving Spiders, Cyrtophorinae (Araneidae), and the Group Theridiidae plus Nesticidae". J. Arachnol. 17: 17–71. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v17_n1/JoA_v17_p71.pdf. Retrieved May 9, 2011. 
  2. ^ William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford University Press. p. 414. ISBN 9780804712033. http://books.google.com/books?id=rc6Vz-cWickC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  3. ^ Joel Hallan. "Araneidae". Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Araneidae.txt. Retrieved February 11, 2011. 
  4. ^ Volker W. Framenau & Nikolaj Scharff (2009). "Cyrtobill darwini, a new species in a new orb-weaving spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae)". Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 315–328. http://www.australasian-arachnology.org/download/publications/Framenau_Scharff_2009_Rec_West_Aust_Mus_(Cyrtobill)_LR.pdf. Retrieved May 9, 2011. 
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