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Cyrtophora citricola, the Glossary

Cyrtophora citricola, also known as the tropical tent-web spider, is an orb-weaver spider in the family Araneidae.^[1]

53 relations: Africa, Aggregate behavior, Arabian Peninsula, Araneoidea, Asia, Australia, Beetle, Bowl and doily spider, Camouflage, Carsten Niebuhr, Cephalothorax, Citrus, Clade, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyclosa, Cyrtophorinae, Denticle (tooth feature), Dragonfly, East Coast of the United States, Eugène Simon, Eugenia, Europe, Everglades National Park, Exoskeleton, Florida, Hispaniola, Holocnemus pluchei, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Kleptoparasitism, Linyphiidae, Mangora (spider), Manogea, Mecynogea lemniscata, Moth, Nephila pilipes, Nuctenea, Opisthosoma, Orb-weaver spider, Ornamental plant, Orthoptera, Palpal bulb, Pedipalp, Pentatomidae, Peter Forsskål, Sexual dimorphism, Spider web, Spinneret, Theridion, Trichobothria, ... Expand index (3 more) »
Cyrtophora
Pantropical spiders
Spiders described in 1775

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Aggregate behavior

In economics, aggregate behavior refers to economy-wide sums of individual behavior.

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The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Araneoidea

Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed "araneoids", treated as a superfamily.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Beetle

Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.

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Bowl and doily spider

The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.

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Carsten Niebuhr

Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark.

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Cephalothorax

The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Cyclosa

Cyclosa, also called trashline orbweavers, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866.

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Cyrtophorinae

Cyrtophorinae is a subfamily of spiders in the orb-weaver spider family.

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Denticle (tooth feature)

Denticles, also called serrations, are small bumps on a tooth that serve to give the tooth a serrated edge.

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Dragonfly

A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Eugène Simon

Eugène Louis Simon (30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants.

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Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Holocnemus pluchei

Holocnemus pluchei, commonly known as the marbled cellar spider, is a species of Pholcidae, a family commonly referred to as "cellar spiders" or "daddy long-legs". This species is distributed across the North Pacific region of the United States, as well as in parts of North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Cyrtophora citricola and Holocnemus pluchei are spiders of Europe.

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Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is a teaching, research and Extension scientific organization focused on agriculture and natural resources.

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Kleptoparasitism

Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.

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Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and in Portugal, from the superstition that if such a spider is seen running on one, it has come to spin the person new clothes, meaning financial good fortune) is a family of very small spiders comprising 4706 described species in 620 genera worldwide.

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Mangora (spider)

Mangora is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889.

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Manogea

Manogea is a genus of Central and South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1997.

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Mecynogea lemniscata

Mecynogea lemniscata, the basilica orbweaver, is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae.

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Moth

Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.

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Nephila pilipes

Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver, Arachne.org.au) is a species of golden orb-web spider.

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Nuctenea

Nuctenea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.

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Opisthosoma

The opisthosoma is the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, behind the prosoma (cephalothorax).

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Orb-weaver spider

Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.

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Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.

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Palpal bulb

The two palpal bulbs – also known as palpal organs and genital bulbs – are the copulatory organs of a male spider.

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Pedipalp

Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders.

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Pentatomidae

Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs.

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Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Spider web

A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.

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Spinneret

A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.

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Theridion

Theridion is a genus of tangle-web spiders with a worldwide distribution.

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Trichobothria

Trichobothria (singular trichobothrium) are elongate setae ("hairs") present in arachnids, various orders of insects, and myriapods that function in the detection of airborne vibrations and currents, and electrical charge.

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Trichonephila clavipes

Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider (a name shared with several others), is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina.

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Tubercle

In anatomy, a tubercle (literally 'small tuber', Latin for 'lump') is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtophora_citricola

Also known as Aranea citricola, Araneus citricola, Cyrtophora dorsuosa, Cyrtophora opuntiae, Cyrtophora sculptilis, Epeira cacti-opuntiae, Epeira cajetana, Epeira citricola, Epeira dorsuosa, Epeira emarginata, Epeira flava, Epeira opuntiae, Epeira purpurea, Tropical Tent-web Spider.

, Trichonephila clavipes, Tubercle, University of Florida.

Cyrtophora citricola, the Glossary

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See also

Cyrtophora

Pantropical spiders

Spiders described in 1775

References