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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Cyrtarachne  Thorell, 1868   1 species

Cyrtarachne ixoides  (Simon, 1870)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015767

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, with rugged surface, fovea absent. Both eye rows recurved (in dorsal view). Clypeus relatively narrow. Sternum almost black. Cheliceren with 3 denticles on promargin and 2 denticles on retromargin. Legs dark yellow. Opisthosoma triangular.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Opisthosoma: sides folded inwards ventrally, dorsum with broad white and brown transverse bands.

Body length female: 6.4-7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Mediterranean, Caucasus, Madagascar
Figures
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2018)

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male Palpal tibia, ventral view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Habitus, lateral view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2018)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Eyes, frontal view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Habitus, ventral view
(Levy 1998a)

Distribution List
Croatia   (no references) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2020) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2020) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2019) |||
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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosselaers J (2018) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Suppl.): 1-103 pdf

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Levy G (1998a) Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365 pdf

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-12-2018 Image insert
30-12-2017 Distribution update Detail
28-05-2013 Datasheet update Detail
28-05-2013 Image insert