Cyrtognatha Explained

Cyrtognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.^[1] It is a senior synonym of Agriognatha.^[2] Species of this genus are found in The Americas.

Species

it contains twenty-one species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama:^[3]

• Cyrtognatha atopica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Argentina
• Cyrtognatha bella (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Costa Rica
• Cyrtognatha bryantae (Chickering, 1956) – Jamaica
• Cyrtognatha catia Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Colombia
• Cyrtognatha eberhardi Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil
• Cyrtognatha espanola (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola
• Cyrtognatha insolita (Chickering, 1956) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Cyrtognatha lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama
• Cyrtognatha leviorum Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Panama
• Cyrtognatha morona Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador
• Cyrtognatha nigrovittata Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Peru
• Cyrtognatha orphana Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil
• Cyrtognatha pachygnathoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Cyrtognatha paradoxa Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico
• Cyrtognatha pathetica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Guatemala
• Cyrtognatha petila Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico
• Cyrtognatha quichua Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador
• Cyrtognatha rucilla (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola
• Cyrtognatha serrata Simon, 1898 – Martinique, St. Vincent
• Cyrtognatha simoni (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
• Cyrtognatha waorani Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador

In synonymy:

• C. argyra (Bryant, 1945) = Cyrtognatha rucilla (Bryant, 1945)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

Notes and References

1. Keyserling. E.. 1881. Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 269–314. 31. 10.5962/bhl.part.20318. Eugen von Keyserling.
2. Dimitrov. D.. Hormiga. G.. 2009. Revision and cladistic analysis of the orbweaving spider genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 317. 30. 10.1206/317.1. 84110902.
3. Gen. Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-11-10. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.