Cyclosa turbinata (Walckenaer, 1842)
cyclosa orbweaver
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FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 Genus: Cyclosa Menge, 1866 Species: Cyclosa turbinata (Walckenaer, 1842)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
trashline orbweavers
Species Common Name:
cyclosa orbweaver
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA to Panama, West Indies, Galapagos, Hawaii
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
CA GA LA MT NC OK OR SC TX WA
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): garden; Riparian; Suburban neighborhood; sugar cane field; early second growth;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Archer, A. F. 1941. Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama. Mus. Pap. geol. Surv. Ala 18: 1-47.
Becker, L. 1879. Diagnoses de nouvelles aranéides américaines. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 22: 77-86.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1898. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 233-288.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1893. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 105-120.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1889. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 1-56.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Dondale, C. D., J. H. Redner, P. Paquin & H. W. Levi. 2003. The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp.
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Ivie, W. & W. M. Barrows. 1935. Some new spiders from Florida. Bull. Univ. Utah 26(6): 1-24.
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
Keyserling, E. 1892. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 1-208.
Kraus, O. 1955. Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abh. senckenb. naturforsch. Ges. 493: 1-112.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562. 
Levi, H. W. 1999. The Neotropical and Mexican Orb Weavers of the genera Cyclosa and Allocyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 155: 299-379.
Levi, H. W. 1977. The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 148: 61-127.
Levi, H. W. 1972. The orb-weaver genera Singa and Hypsosinga in America (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Camb. 78: 229-256.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
McCook, H. C. 1888. Necessity for revising the nomenclature of American spiders. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1888: 74-79.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791. 
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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