Species Cybaeus morosus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Large Log Spider - Cybaeus morosus - female

C. morosus female - Cybaeus morosus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Cybaeidae

Genus Cybaeus

Species morosus (Cybaeus morosus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Species author Simon 1886.

Identification

"The large lunate cavity at the tip of the proximal arm of the tegular apophysis (Figs. 15, 34) diagnoses the male of C. morosus. The female is diagnosed by the circular atrial depressions (Figs. 37–38). This species is unlikely to be confused with other species of Cybaeus (1)".

Range

"Western North America from Adak Island in the Aleutians south to west central California and inland to the British Columbia Rocky Mountains and eastern Oregon (1)".

Works Cited

1.	Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae): the Nearctic species of the Holarctic clade. Bennett, R., Copley, C. & Copley, D. 2016. Zootaxa.

Contributed by Ken Schneider on 30 April, 2020 - 3:05pm
Last updated 30 April, 2020 - 4:13pm

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