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Tropical Tent-web Spiders
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Tropical Tent-web Spiders

Cyrtophorinae

Cyrtophorinae is a subfamily of spiders in the orb-weaver spider family. Unlike other orb-weavers, spiders belonging to Cyrtophorinae build horizontal, finely meshed platforms within a tangle of irregular webs. The usually dome-shaped platform is a non-sticky orb web.

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5 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Tentweb Weavers

genusCyrtophora

Mecynogea

genusMecynogea

Manogea

genusManogea

Kapogea

genusKapogea

Cyrtobill

genusCyrtobill

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1004908.