Cyrtophorinae Explained

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

Notes and References

1. 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. May 9, 2011. September 17, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100917064539/http://americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v17_n1/JoA_v17_p71.pdf. dead.
2. Book: William A. Shear. Spiders--webs, behavior, and evolution. Stanford University Press. 1986. 414. 978-0-8047-1203-3. registration.
3. Web site: Araneidae . Joel Hallan . Biology Catalog . . February 11, 2011.
4. 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. 3 . 315–328. 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.315-328 . May 9, 2011.