Taxon details


Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • 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
Type deposit provide information
  • 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
Taxonomic references
Aranea citricola Forsskål, 1775: 86 (D).
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, 2024: 412, f. 1A-G (f).
References

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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butt, A. & Siraj, A. (2006). Some orb weaver spiders from Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 38: 215-220. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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). download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dufour, L. (1820a). Description de six arachnides nouvelles. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 4: 355-366. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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] download pdf -- 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] download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2024). 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 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, 540 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. download pdf -- 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 download pdf download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta,-eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 183-196. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1968b). [The spider genus Cyrtophora of Japan]. Kansaishizenkagaku 20: 34-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-01-06 New taxonomic reference entry Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024 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)