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Cyclosa turbinata
Species
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)
Species
turbinata
(Cyclosa turbinata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the
World Spider Catalog
.
Explanation of Names
Cyclosa turbinata
(
Walckenaer
, 1841)
Size
females: 3.3-5.2 mm body length; males: 2.5 mm body length
(
1
)
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).
Male
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)
Herbert W. Levi. 1977. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 148(3), 61-127.
Contributed by
Jeff Hollenbeck
on 9 December, 2005 - 11:27pm
Additional contributions by
cotinis
,
Lynette Elliott
,
cheins
,
Chuck Entz
Last updated 21 January, 2023 - 9:32am