Cyrtarachne

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Cyrtarachninae
Tribus: Cyrtarachnini
Genus: Cyrtarachne
Species: C. akirai – C. avimerdaria – C. bengalensis – C. bicolor – C. bigibbosa – C. bilunulata – C. biswajiti – C. biswamoyi – C. bufo – C. cingulata – C. conica – C. dimidiata – C. fangchengensis – C. finniganae – C. flavopicta – C. friederici – C. gibbifera – C. gilva – C. gravelyi – C. grubei – C. guttigera – C. heminaria – C. histrionica – C. hubeiensis – C. ignava – C. inaequalis – C. invenusta – C. ixoides – C. jucunda – C. lactea – C. laevis – C. latifrons – C. lepida – C. madagascariensis – C. melanoleuca – C. melanosticta – C. menghaiensis – C. nagasakiensis – C. nodosa – C. pallida – C. perspicillata – C. promilai – C. raniceps – C. rubicunda – C. schmidi – C. simplex – C. sinicola – C. sundari – C. sunjoymongai – C. szetschuanensis – C. termitophila – C. tricolor – C. tuladepilachna – C. xanthopyga – C. yunoharuensis
Name

Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868

Type species: Cyrtarachne grubei Keyserling, 1864
References
Primary references
Additional references

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. 2020. Taxonomic account of orb-weaving spider genus Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 (Araneae: Araneidae) of Bangladesh. Journal of Biodiversity Conservation and Bioresource Management 5(2, 2019): 75-82. DOI: 10.3329/jbcbm.v5i2.44917. Open access. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: orb-weaver spiders

Cyrtarachne is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains fifty-five species:[1]

C. akirai Tanikawa, 2013 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
C. avimerdaria Tikader, 1963 – India
C. bengalensis Tikader, 1961 – India, China
C. bicolor Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
C. bigibbosa Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
C. bilunulata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
C. biswamoyi Tikader, 1961 – India
C. bufo (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
C. cingulata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
C. conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Malaysia
C. dimidiata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
C. fangchengensis Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China
C. finniganae Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
C. flavopicta Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
C. friederici Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
C. gibbifera Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
C. gilva Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China
C. grubei (Keyserling, 1864) – Mauritius
C. guttigera Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
C. heminaria Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
C. histrionica Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
C. hubeiensis Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China
C. ignava Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
C. inaequalis Thorell, 1895 – India, China, Korea, Myanmar
C. invenusta Thorell, 1891 – India (Nicobar Is.)
C. ixoides (Simon, 1870) – Mediterranean, Caucasus, Madagascar
C. jucunda Tanikawa, 2013 – Japan
C. lactea Pocock, 1898 – East Africa
C. laevis Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Flores, Sulawesi)
C. latifrons Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
Cyrtarachne l. atuberculata Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria)
C. lepida Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
C. madagascariensis Emerit, 2000 – Madagascar
C. melanoleuca Ono, 1995 – Thailand
C. melanosticta Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
C. menghaiensis Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China
C. nagasakiensis Strand, 1918 – India, China, Korea, Japan
C. nodosa Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Yemen
C. pallida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
C. perspicillata (Doleschall, 1859) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), New Guinea
Cyrtarachne p. possoica Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
C. promilai Tikader, 1963 – India
C. raniceps Pocock, 1900 – India, Sri Lanka
C. rubicunda L. Koch, 1871 – Australia (New South Wales)
C. schmidi Tikader, 1963 – India, China
C. sinicola Strand, 1942 – China
C. sundari Tikader, 1963 – India
C. sunjoymongai Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
C. szetschuanensis Schenkel, 1963 – China
C. termitophila Lawrence, 1952 – Congo
C. tricolor (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Moluccas) to Australia
Cyrtarachne t. aruana Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
C. tuladepilachna Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
C. xanthopyga Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
C. yunoharuensis Strand, 1918 – China, Korea, Japan

References

"Gen. Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Thorell, T. (1868), "Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae", in Virgin, C. A. (ed.), Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring Jorden