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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Cyclosa  Menge, 1866   6 species

Cyclosa algerica  Simon, 1885

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015567

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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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Mediterranean
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levi 1977a)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1977a)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Simon 1929)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1977a)

species

female Epigyne, posterior view
(Levi 1977a)

References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

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)

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Levi H W (1977a) The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin Museum Comparative Zoology 148: 61-127

Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
30-12-2017 Distribution update Old value
31-12-2013 Image insert
16-12-2013 Image insert