Cyclosa

Cyclosa
Cyclosa
camouflaged C. octotuberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Cyclosa
Menge, 1866
Species

C. conica
C. monteverde
C. octotuberculata
 many more
Diversity
165 species

Cyclosa is a spider genus in the family Araneidae.

One small species from Guyana (described under the nomen dubium C. tremula) has a striking black and white pattern and rests in the center of an orb web with greyish "imitation spiders" it has created from prey remains. If the spider is disturbed, it vibrates its body, so that the black and white patches blur into grey, thus resembling the false spiders.[1]

References

  1. ^ Oxford, G.S. & Gillespie, R.G. (1998). Evolution and Ecology of Spider Coloration. Annual Review of Entomology 43:619-643. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.619
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