Biology:Cyrtophorinae
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Short description: Subfamily of spiders
| Cyrtophorinae | |
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| Cyrtophora moluccensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtophorinae Simon, 1895 |
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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
Mecynogea lemniscata: courtship
egg sac + prey
egg sac
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford University Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3. https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea.
- ↑ Joel Hallan. "Araneidae". Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Araneidae.txt. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3699932 entry
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