Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775)

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 301-336 : 304

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC876897-235D-4EAD-95BB-4C1921EEF227

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629976

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/29238793-FFE2-5D42-99A6-FB8219BFA20C

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Plazi

scientific name

Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775)
status

 

Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775) View in CoL

Epeira opuntiae ; Lucas 1846: 247.

Material examined: EL ATTEUF: Palm grove of El Atteuf, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 5.II.2015, 1 ♂, 16.II.2015, 4 ♂, 06.II.2015, 3 ♂, 15.III.2015. EL GUERRARA: Aghzou, hand collecting, 4 ♀, 11.I.2020; 9 ♀, 26.I.2020; 2 ♀, 8.II.2020; 5 ♀, 15.II.2020; 1 ♀, 22.II.2020; 6 ♀, 11.III.2020; 2 ♂, 8 ♀, 17.III.2020, 2 ♀, 27.III.2020.

Previous records in Algeria: Known only from Algiers ( Lucas 1846). The presence of this species is strongly underestimated.

Distribution: Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, India, China, Japan. Introduced to Cuba, Dominican Rep., Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil ( World Spider Catalog 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Araneidae

Genus

Cyrtophora

Loc

Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775)

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert 2024
2024
Loc

Epeira opuntiae

Lucas, H. 1846: 247
1846
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