Cyrba ocellata (Kroneberg, 1875)

Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A., 2010, Order Araneae, Arthropod fauna of the UAE, Abu Dhabi: Dar Al Ummah, pp. 27-69 : 30-31

Cyrba ocellata (Kroneberg, 1875) Fig. 11

Specimens examined: Wadi Shawkah, 1♀, 5-12. v.2007, WT .

Description: Measurements. Cephalothorax length 2.6 mm, width 2.0 mm, height 1.1 mm. Abdomen length 4.0 mm, Width 2.4 mm. Eye field length 1.3 mm, anterior width 2.0 mm, posterior width 1.8 mm.

Description 0f male see Wanless (1984) and Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz (2008). Female. Mediuın-sized spider. Carapace low, elongated; eye field short, anteriorly slightly wider; fovea long, sulciform. Colouration of carapace light brown, short yellowish hairs on eye field, eyes surrounded by black rings, fiinged by whitish hairs, long brown bristles near eyes. Chelicerae brown, three teeth 0n promargin, five on retromargin. Mouthparts light brown with pale tips, sternum orange, oval. Abdomen elongated, narrower than carapace, yellowish grey, clothed in delicate grey hairs. Venter yellow. Spinnerets yellowish grey. Legs orange, hairy, especially tibiae and metatarsi of first pair. Spines brown. Epigyne strongly sclerotised, with median notch in posterior edge (Fig. ll).

Distribution: Widespread pantropical species, known from Eastern Africa, Central Asia, Southern Orient and Eastern Australia. New to the UAE.