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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Cyclosa  Menge, 1866   8 species

Cyclosa insulana  (Costa, 1834)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015634

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Description

Prosoma with dark brown pattern on white background. Sternum dark brown with light patches. Opisthosoma with silver and black parts. Femur white, apically with annulations. Tibia and metatarsus apically with annulations. Patella with a dark patch

Body length female: 6.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Mediterranean to Japan, India to Papua New Guinea, Australia
Figures
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male Pedipalp, anterior view
(Groppali et al. 1998)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Groppali et al. 1998)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Groppali et al. 1998)

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male Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Groppali et al. 1998)

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female Epigyne
(Locket 1980)

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female Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Locket 1980)

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female Habitus
(Locket 1980)

Distribution List
Albania   (no references) ||| Croatia   (no references) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). [N.B.: few records from this paper are not taken over and not commented] Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Groppali R, Guerci P, Pesarini C (1998) Appunti sui Ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) della costa orientale di Eivissa (Ibiza), con la descrizione di una nuova specie: Cyclosa groppalii Pesarini (Araneidae). Boletín de la Sociedad de Historia Natural de Baleares 41: 65-74 pdf

Locket G H (1980) Some spiders from the Comoro Islands. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 117-128 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
31-12-2013 Image insert
15-10-2013 Distribution update Detail