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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Trashline Orbweavers (Cyclosa)

Genus Cyclosa - Trashline Orbweavers

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · See Also · Works Cited

Trashline Orbweavers (Cyclosa) ? - Cyclosa

Cyclosa conica? - Cyclosa conica - female

Trash collector - Cyclosa turbinata - female

Cyclosa turbinata? - Cyclosa turbinata - female

Small black and tan spider - Cyclosa turbinata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)

Genus Cyclosa (Trashline Orbweavers)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Cyclosa: From Greek - 'to move in a circle, circling spider', refering to the spinning of the web.(1)

Numbers

There are 5 species in BugGuide's range (continental North America north of Mexico).

Identification

C. berlandi has three posterior tubercles, and is most confused with C. walckenaeri. (2)

Females then males of each species

Cyclosa caroli

Cyclosa conica

Cyclosa turbinata

Cyclosa walckenaeri

Range

C. berlandi: found on the southwestern coast of CA & southern TX. (2)

C. caroli: widespread in southeastern United States. (2)

C. conica: widespread in the USA, Alaska, & Canada, but uncommon in the southeastern USA and the southern half of the Great Plains. (3)

C. turbinata: widespread in the United States from Washington to New York and south through Central America. (3)

C. walckenaeri: Florida and southern Texas. (2)

See Also

Allocyclosa bifurca

Crytophora citricola

Works Cited

1.	Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.

2.	The neotropical and Mexican orb weavers of the genera Cyclosa and Allocyclosa (Araneae, Araneidae) Herbert W. Levi. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 155, No. 7 Cambridge, Mass., May 25, 1999.

3.	The Orb-weaving Spiders of Canada and Alaska - The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 23 Dondale, C.D., J.H. Redner, P, Paquin and H.W. Levi. 2003. NRC Research Press.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Lynette Elliott, Jeff Hollenbeck, cheins, Chuck Entz, Ted Kropiewnicki, kschnei, Mandy Howe
Last updated 3 May, 2022 - 9:36am

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