Cyrba ocellata (Kroneberg, 1875)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, eyes surrounded with black, prosoma length: 2.2 mm. Chelicerae light brown. Leg I light brown, legs II-IV yellowish orange, femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum anteriorly yellowish grey, posteriorly darker, near spinnerets almost black with white patch, venter yellowish.
Female
Prosoma length: 2.4 mm. Colouration as in males, opisthosoma slightly lighter.
Additional information
Araneophagic species which invades the webs of web-building spiders, kills them and feeds on them.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Chelicera
(Wesołowska 1996)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Vulva, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1996)
Distribution List
References
Jackson R R (2000) Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Brettus, Cocalus and Cyrba, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, Kenya and Sri Lanka. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 27: 29-39 
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297
Wesołowska W (1996) New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2