Cyclosa algerica Simon, 1885
Description
Male
Femur I: 2/3 of its length black (apical part), ventrally with a series of 5-6 longer spines.
Female
Opisthosoma: venter with black region, bordered with white, preceded by a pale or whitish region, sometimes indistinct.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levi 1977a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1977a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne 2021a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kaya 2025)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Kaya 2025)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Kaya 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Fomichev 2026)
Median apophysis
(Kaya 2025)
Habitus, lateral view
(Fomichev 2026)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Simon 1929)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1977a)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Levi 1977a)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Lecigne 2021a)
Epigyne
(Nuruyeva et al. 2024a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kaya 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, anterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Breitling 2020)
Distribution List
References
Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Surdo S (2022) On some new reports on the spider fauna of Italy and Sicily (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 13: 399-408
Fomichev A A (2026) New data on the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Dagestan, Russia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 12: 1-35
Kaya R S (2025) New data on two spider species (Araneae) from Uludağ Mountain, Bursa. Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology C - Life Sciences and Biotechnology 14: 34-43
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34
Levi H W (1977a) The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 61-127
Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Maharramov M M (2024a) Three new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1047-1052
Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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