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    nested within Cyrtarachninae s.l. A wider study of the family Araneidae published in 2020 reached a similar conclusion, separating Cyrtarachninae s.l. into...
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    Cyrtarachninae is a subfamily of spiders in the family Araneidae (orb-weaver spiders, araneids). The group has been circumscribed in several different...
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  • Thumbnail for Mastophora (spider)
    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Mastophora Holmberg, 1876 Type species M. extraordinaria...
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  • in the informal group mastophorines of a broadly defined subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. As of April 2019[update] it contained only two species, both found...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyrtarachne nagasakiensis
    2014 and 2020 which placed it in the "cyrtarachnines" in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. "Taxon details Cyrtarachne nagasakiensis Strand, 1895", World Spider...
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    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 Type species C. grubei (Keyserling...
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    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Celaenia Thorell, 1868 Type species C. excavata (L. Koch...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyrtarachne yunoharuensis
    2014 and 2020 which placed it in the "cyrtarachnines" in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. "Taxon details Cyrtarachne yunoharuensis Strand, 1918", World Spider...
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  • expected to be part of the "mastophorines", placed in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. Cladomelea akermani is native to South Africa. It has been recorded...
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  • in the informal group mastophorines of a broadly defined subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. The relationship of Exechocentrus lancearius (then the only species...
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  • Thumbnail for Ordgarius
    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886 Type species O. monstrosus Keyserling...
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    The genus Ordgarius has been placed in the broadly defined subfamily Cyrtarachninae, and, as a bolas spider, would be expected to fall within the informal...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyrtarachne inaequalis
    2014 and 2020 which placed it in the "cyrtarachnines" in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. Spiders found in Japan that had previously been identified as C...
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  • aspect. The genus has been placed in the broadly defined subfamily Cyrtarachninae, and within this in the informal group of mastophorines which includes...
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  • Thumbnail for Poecilopachys
    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Poecilopachys Simon, 1895 Type species P. australasia (Griffith...
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  • Thumbnail for Cladomelea
    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Cladomelea Simon, 1895 Type species C. longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge...
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  • Ordgarius. The genus has been placed in the broadly defined subfamily Cyrtarachninae, and, as a bolas spider, would be expected to fall within the informal...
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    detach, allowing the moth to escape. Like other genera in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l., Pasilobus species produce special sticky drops that adhere to...
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  • Thumbnail for Cladomelea debeeri
    expected to be part of the "mastophorines", placed in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l. A female was observed over four successive nights. It constructed...
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  • Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Taczanowskia Keyserling, 1879 Type species T. striata Keyserling...
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  • Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Aranoethra Butler, 1873 Type species A. cambridgei (Butler...
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    (2014), "Molecular Phylogeny of Moth-Specialized Spider Sub-Family Cyrtarachninae, which Includes Bolas Spiders", Zoological Science, 31 (11): 716–720...
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  • (2015). "A NEW SPECIES OF Cyrtarachne,THORELL, 1868 (ARANEAE: ARANEIDAE: CYRTARACHNINAE) FROM THE SACRED GROVE FORESTS OF CENTRAL WESTERN GHATS, INDIA" (PDF)...
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  • Thumbnail for Paraplectana
    Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l. Genus: Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867 Type species P. thorntoni...
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    d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Nouveaux mâles de Gasteracanthinae et de Cyrtarachninae". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 4: 461...
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