''Cyrtarachne'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of orb-weaver spiders first described by

Tamerlan Thorell Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...

in 1868.

Species

it contains fifty-five species: *'' C. akirai'' Tanikawa, 2013 – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan *'' C. avimerdaria'' Tikader, 1963 – India *'' C. bengalensis'' Tikader, 1961 – India, China *'' C. bicolor'' Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar *'' C. bigibbosa'' Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *'' C. bilunulata'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon *'' C. biswamoyi'' Tikader, 1961 – India *'' C. bufo'' (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan *'' C. cingulata'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar *'' C. conica'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Malaysia *'' C. dimidiata'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar *'' C. fangchengensis'' Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China *'' C. finniganae'' Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique *'' C. flavopicta'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea *'' C. friederici'' Strand, 1911 – New Guinea *'' C. gibbifera'' Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' C. gilva'' Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China *'' C. grubei'' (Keyserling, 1864) – Mauritius *'' C. guttigera'' Simon, 1909 – Vietnam *'' C. heminaria'' Simon, 1909 – Vietnam *'' C. histrionica'' Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar *'' C. hubeiensis'' Yin & Zhao, 1994 – China *'' C. ignava'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar *'' C. inaequalis'' Thorell, 1895 – India, China, Korea, Myanmar *'' C. invenusta'' Thorell, 1891 – India (Nicobar Is.) *'' C. ixoides'' (Simon, 1870) – Mediterranean, Caucasus, Madagascar *'' C. jucunda'' Tanikawa, 2013 – Japan *'' C. lactea'' Pocock, 1898 – East Africa *'' C. laevis'' Thorell, 1877 – Indonesia (Sumatra, Flores, Sulawesi) *'' C. latifrons'' Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria) **'' Cyrtarachne l. atuberculata'' Hogg, 1900 – Australia (Victoria) *'' C. lepida'' Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' C. madagascariensis'' Emerit, 2000 – Madagascar *'' C. melanoleuca'' Ono, 1995 – Thailand *'' C. melanosticta'' Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar *'' C. menghaiensis'' Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China *'' C. nagasakiensis'' Strand, 1918 – India, China, Korea, Japan *'' C. nodosa'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Yemen *'' C. pallida'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand) *'' C. perspicillata'' (Doleschall, 1859) – Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), New Guinea **'' Cyrtarachne p. possoica'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi) *'' C. promilai'' Tikader, 1963 – India *'' C. raniceps'' Pocock, 1900 – India, Sri Lanka *'' C. rubicunda'' L. Koch, 1871 – Australia (New South Wales) *'' C. schmidi'' Tikader, 1963 – India, China *'' C. sinicola'' Strand, 1942 – China *'' C. sundari'' Tikader, 1963 – India *'' C. sunjoymongai'' Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India *'' C. szetschuanensis'' Schenkel, 1963 – China *'' C. termitophila'' Lawrence, 1952 – Congo *'' C. tricolor'' (Doleschall, 1859) – Indonesia (Moluccas) to Australia **'' Cyrtarachne t. aruana'' Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.) *'' C. tuladepilachna'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. xanthopyga'' Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea *'' C. yunoharuensis'' Strand, 1918 – China, Korea, Japan

References

Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell {{Araneidae-stub