Tent-web Spiders
Cyrtophora Simon, 1864
Type species: Cyrtophora conica (Pallas, 1772)
(after Framenau & Scharff 2009): Cyrtophora differs from other araneid genera (excluding Argiope, Gea, Manogea, Mecynogea and Kapogea) by having the second to fourth combined patella and tibia slightly shorter than the femur of the same leg and shorter than the combined metatarsus and tarsus of the same leg, by relatively heavy legs and by a slight separation of the lateral eyes. Cyrtophora differs from Argiope, Gea and Mecynogea by a recurved or straight posterior eye row, from Manogea by a wider cephalic region and from Kapogea by a combination of somatic and genitalic characters, including an embolus that is placed near the median apophysis and being supported by a conductor. Cytophora differs from Cyrtobill by genitalic characters, in particular the absence of a basal cymbium concavity in the male pedipalp and the absence of a scape in the female epigyne (see above).
Publications
Framenau VW, Scharff N (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
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