Taxon details
Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2024-01-06
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015804]
- Distribution: Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, India, China, Japan. Introduced to Cuba, Dominican Rep., Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Cyrtophora citricola abessinensis (Nentwig et al., 2019)
- Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0001732) of Cyrtophora sculptilis
Aranea citricola Forsskål, 1776: pl. 24, f. D (D).
Epeira opuntiae Dufour, 1820a: 359, pl. 69, f. 3 (Df).
Epeira cacti-opuntiae Lucas, 1838: 40, pl. 6, f. 7 (Df).
Epeira citricola Walckenaer, 1841: 143, pl. 18, f. 2 (Df).
Epeira emarginata Lucas, 1858: 418, pl. 12, f. 5 (Df).
Epeira opuntiae Vinson, 1863: 212, 313, pl. 9, f. 1 (mf, in part).
Epeira flava Vinson, 1863: 222, 313, pl. 8, f. 3 (Df).
Epeira purpurea Vinson, 1863: 225, 313, pl. 8. f. 4 (Df).
Cyrtophora citricola Simon, 1864: 262.
Epeira dorsuosa Blackwall, 1866: 462 (Df).
Epeira opuntiae Simon, 1870b: 314 (Dm).
Cyrtophora sculptilis L. Koch, 1872a: 128, pl. 9, f. 9 (Df).
Cyrtophora opuntiae Simon, 1874a: 34, pl. 1, f. 3 (f).
Epeira cajetana Costa, 1882: sep. p. 28.
Cyrtophora citricola Simon, 1895a: 775, f. 845 (m).
Epeira citricola Workman, 1896: 32, pl. 32 (f).
Araneus citricola Pocock, 1900a: 266, f. 73 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola abessinensis Strand, 1906b: 618 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015805].
Cyrtophora citricola Dyal, 1935: 175, pl. 14, f. 111-115 (f).
Cyrtophora dorsuosa Roewer, 1942a: 748.
Cyrtophora citricola Wiehle, 1967b: 195, f. 52 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Yaginuma, 1968b: 36, f. 6-7 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Brignoli, 1968d: 86, f. 4-5 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Saaristo, 1978: 124, f. 242-254 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 31, f. 43-44 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Tikader, 1982a: 180, f. 346-350 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Roberts, 1983: 253, f. 133-138 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Yaginuma, 1986a: 118, f. 62.3 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Chen & Gao, 1990: 60, f. 73a-b (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 375, f. 21 (m).
Cyrtophora citricola Levi, 1997: 252, f. 148-156 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Yin et al., 1997d: 279, f. 189a-e (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Levy, 1998a: 323, f. 47-56 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 279, f. 163R-S, 165B (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Levi, 2002: 538, f. 56-57, 275-276 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Álvares & De Maria, 2004: 155, f. 1-2 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Butt & Siraj, 2006: 218, f. 3A-C (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Gajbe, 2007: 515, f. 273-277 (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Víquez, 2007: 386, f. 1b-c, 2a-c (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Crespo et al., 2009a: 471, f. 1 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Saaristo, 2010: 50, f. 4.77-84 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Franzini et al., 2013: 30, f. 5a-j, 6a-b, 7a-c (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Ade & Dixit, 2016: 731, f. 3a-g (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Rozwałka, Rutkowski & Bielak-Bielecki, 2017: 60, f. 1a (m).
Cyrtophora citricola Dhande et al., 2017: 5234, f. 1-12 (m).
Cyrtophora citricola Martins & Santos, 2018: 451, f. 15E-F (m).
Cyrtophora citricola Soliman et al., 2018: 152, pl. 10E-F, 11A (m).
Cyrtophora citricola Nentwig et al., 2019: 35 (S of Cyrtophora citricola abessinensis).
Cyrtophora citricola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 69, p. 68: 1 unnumbered f., p. 69: 7 unnumbered f. (f).
Cyrtophora citricola Morano, 2023: 88, f. 61-65 (mf).
Cyrtophora citricola Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024a: 412, f. 1A-G (f).
Ade, P. P. & Dixit, G. S. (2016). Diversity and ecology of spider of the family Araneid Clerck 1757 from Shivaji College campus, Akola. International Journal of Scientific Research 5(12): 729-732. -- Show included taxa
Álvares, É. S. S. & De Maria, M. (2004). First record of Cyrtophora citricola (Forskål) in Brazil (Araneae, Araneidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21(1): 155-156. -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1866). A list of spiders captured in the south-east region of equatorial Africa, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18(108): 451-468. doi:10.1080/00222936608679683 -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1968d). Su alcuni Araneidae e Theridiidae di Sicilia (Araneae). Atti dell' Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania (6) 20: 85-104. -- Show included taxa
Butt, A. & Siraj, A. (2006). Some orb weaver spiders from Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 38: 215-220. -- Show included taxa
Chen, X. E. & Gao, J. C. (1990). The Sichuan farmland spiders in China. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Chengdu, 226 pp. -- Show included taxa
Costa, A. (1882). Notizie ed osservazione sulla geo-fauna sarda. I. Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli 9: 1-41 (Araneae, pp. 28-29). -- Show included taxa
Crespo, L. C., Cardoso, P., Henriques, S. & Gaspar, C. (2009a). Spiders (Araneae) from Porto Santo (Madeira, Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 471-475. -- Show included taxa
Dhande, S. S., Bodkhe, A. K., Ahmad, R. I. & Kamble, S. S. (2017). First record of male Cyrtophora citricola Forsskål (Araneae: Araneidae) from India. Trends in Biosciences 10(24): 5234-5238. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022d). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 1 (A-C). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326922 -- Show included taxa
Dufour, L. (1820a). Description de six arachnides nouvelles. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 4: 355-366. -- Show included taxa
Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. -- Show included taxa
Forsskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], pp. 85-86. [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] -- Show included taxa
Forsskål, P. (1776). Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], 43 pls. (Araneae, pls. 24-25). [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] -- Show included taxa
Franzini, P. Z. N., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Yessoufou, K. & Van der Bank, F. H. (2013). Combined analyses of genetic and morphological data indicate more than one species of Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae) in South Africa. International Journal of Modern Biological Research 1: 21-34. -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa
Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2024a). Orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae, Nephilidae) from the Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan with comments on morphological variation in Neoscona mukerjei Tikader, 1980 and emasculation in Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793). Lahore Garrison University Journal of Life Sciences 7(4, 2023): 407-432. [publ. Jan. 7, 2024] doi:10.54692/lgujls.2023.0704305 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1997). The American orb weavers of the genera Mecynogea, Manogea, Kapogea and Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 215-255. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1998a). Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365. -- Show included taxa
Lucas, H. (1838). Arachnides, Myriapodes et Thysanoures. In: Barker-Webb, P. & S. Berthelot (eds.) Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries. Paris 2(2), 19-52, pl. 6-7. -- Show included taxa
Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11206 -- Show included taxa
Martins, P. H. & Santos, A. J. (2018). Morphology and taxonomy of the orb-weaving spider genus Mecynogea, and a peculiar species of Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4415(3): 423-451. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.2 -- Show included taxa
Morano, E. (2023). La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118. -- Show included taxa
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019). Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29-51. doi:10.30963/aramit5809 -- Show included taxa
Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa
Rozwałka, R., Rutkowski, T. & Bielak-Bielecki, P (2017). New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland (II). Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 71(1, 2016): 59-85. [published in April 2017] -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Scharff, N. & Coddington, J. A. (1997). A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 355-434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01281.x -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, 540 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., Ismail, T. G. & El-Masry, S. M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Serket 16(3): 133-160. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. (1982a). Part 1. Family Araneidae (= Argiopidae). Typical orb-weavers. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-293. -- Show included taxa
Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 -- Show included taxa
Víquez, C. (2007). First record of Cyrtophora citricola (Forskål) from Costa Rica, with notes on some related species (Araneae: Araneidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 40: 385-388. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta,-eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 183-196. -- Show included taxa
Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa
Yaginuma, T. (1968b). [The spider genus Cyrtophora of Japan]. Kansaishizenkagaku 20: 34-38. -- Show included taxa
Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa
Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhu, M. S., Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J. & Bao, Y. H. (1997d). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Science Press, Beijing, 460 pp. -- Show included taxa
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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2024-01-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024a | n/a |
2023-07-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Morano, 2023 | n/a |
2022-06-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d | n/a |
2019-09-16 | New taxonomic reference entry | Nentwig et al., 2019 | n/a |
2019-09-16 | Species synonymy | Nentwig et al., 2019 | Cyrtophora citricola abessinensis synonymized with Cyrtophora citricola |
2019-02-16 | New taxonomic reference entry | Álvares & De Maria, 2004 | n/a |
2019-01-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Soliman et al., 2018 | n/a |
2018-11-02 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Tullgren, 1910 | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Cyrtophora citricola obscura Tullgren, 1910 |
2018-05-01 | New taxonomic reference entry | Martins & Santos, 2018 | n/a |
2018-05-01 | Species distribution update | Martins & Santos, 2018 | n/a (Old value) |
2018-02-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dhande et al., 2017 | n/a |
2017-04-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Rozwałka, Rutkowski & Bielak-Bielecki, 2017 | n/a |
2017-01-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Ade & Dixit, 2016 | n/a |
2016-09-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Crespo et al., 2009a | n/a |
2015-02-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Franzini et al., 2013 | n/a |
2014-07-21 | Taxonomic reference update | n/a (Old value) |