Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Cyclosa  Menge, 1866   8 species

Cyclosa algerica  Simon, 1885

Description
Male

Femur I: 2/3 of its length black (apical part), ventrally with a series of 5-6 longer spines.

Female

Opisthosoma: venter with black region, bordered with white, preceded by a pale or whitish region, sometimes indistinct.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy (Sicily), Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Simon, 1929; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva et al., 2024) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Dentici et al., 2022) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Barrientos & Febrer, 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Simon, 1929) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Lecigne, 2021a) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Dentici A, Barbera A, Ditta A, Surdo S (2022) On some new reports on the spider fauna of Italy and Sicily (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 13: 399-408 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Levi H W (1977a) The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 61-127 pdf

Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y, Maharramov M M (2024) Three new records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1047-1052 pdf

Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772 pdf

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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