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Cyclosa turbinata (Walckenaer, 1842)
cyclosa orbweaver

FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
    Genus: Cyclosa Menge, 1866
        Species: Cyclosa turbinata (Walckenaer, 1842)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  orbweavers
Genus Common Name:  trashline orbweavers
Species Common Name:  cyclosa orbweaver

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA to Panama, West Indies, Galapagos, Hawaii
Nearctic States & Provinces:   CA GA LA MT NC OK OR SC TX WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: 

Natural History, Phenology & 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.
Recorded Habitats:  (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Seasonality of Specimen Records:


Image(s) of Habitus:


Credit: Schimming, Lynette

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:  (image not yet available)

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:  (image not yet available)

Synonyms and Chresonyms†

Cyclosa turbinata Walckenaer 1842
Epeira glomosa Walckenaer 1842
Epeira turbinata Walckenaer 1842
Epeira caudata Hentz 1850
Singa vanbruyssellii Becker 1879
Cyrtophora turbinata McCook 1888
Cyclosa index O. P.-Cambridge 1889
Singa van-bruysselii Keyserling 1892
Cyclosa caudata Keyserling 1893
Cyclosa culta O. P.-Cambridge 1893
Cyclosa turbinata McCook 1894
Cyclosa tuberculifera O. P.-Cambridge 1898
Cyclosa culta F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904
Cyclosa index F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904
Cyclosa tuberculifera F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904
Araneus glomosus Petrunkevitch 1911
Araneus van bruysseli Petrunkevitch 1911
Cyclosa nanna Ivie & Barrows 1935
Singa van-bruyselli Archer 1941
Singa vanbrusselli Kraus 1955
Cyclosa turbinata Levi 1972
Cyclosa turbinata Levi 1977
Cyclosa turbinata Coddington 1990
Cyclosa turbinata Breene et al. 1993
Cyclosa turbinata Levi 1999
Cyclosa turbinata Levi 2002
Cyclosa turbinata Dondale et al. 2003

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 accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ARANEIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Cyclosa Menge, 1866‡‡

C. albisternis Simon, 1887 ...............India, Andaman Is., Hawaii
C. berlandi Levi, 1999 ...............USA, Hispaniola to Ecuador
C. caroli (Hentz, 1850) ...............USA, West Indies to Bolivia
C. conica (Pallas, 1772) ...............Holarctic
C. cucurbitula Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
C. oculata (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
C. olorina Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
C. perkinsi Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
C. simplicicauda Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
C. simplicicauda rufescens Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
C. walckenaeri (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889) ...............USA to Guyana, West Indies
C. xanthomelas Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution