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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes  » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Trashline Orbweavers (Cyclosa) » Cyclosa turbinata

Species Cyclosa turbinata

Classification · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes )
Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus Cyclosa (Trashline Orbweavers)
Species turbinata (Cyclosa turbinata)
Identification
Females of turbinata differ from conica by being smaller in size and having a pair of anterior dorsal humps. (1)


Levi (1977) also comments in the text that the anterior dorsal humps are "often indistinct" (pg 82).
Range
Connecticut, central New York, southern Michigan to Washington, south to Central America. (1)
Internet References
Internet References

~ www.archive.org - The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia, and Eustala north of Mexico, By Herbert W. Levi
Works Cited
1.The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia, and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae)
By Herbert W. Levi
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 9 December, 2005 - 11:27pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Chuck Entz
Last updated 14 April, 2011 - 8:39pm

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