Cyrtophorinae

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: Cyrtophorinae
Genera: Cyrtophora – Kapogea – Manogea – Mecynogea – Megaraneus

Name
Cyrtophorinae

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

List of Araneidae genera

References

Jonathan A. Coddington (1989). "Spinneret Silk Spigot Morphology: Evidence for the Monophyly of Orbweaving Spiders, Cyrtophorinae (Araneidae), and the Group Theridiidae plus Nesticidae" (PDF). J. Arachnol. 17: 17–71. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford University Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
Joel Hallan. "Araneidae". Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. 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)" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 25: 315–328. Retrieved May 9, 2011.