Cicurina

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Cicurina
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Cicurina sp. from the "sky island" mountains of Arizona and New Mexico, 2006.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cicurinidae
Genus: Cicurina
Menge, 1871 [1]
Type species
C. cicur
(Fabricius, 1793)
Species

136, see text

Synonyms [1]
  • MoguracicurinaKomatsu, 1947 [2]
  • Tetrilus Simon, 1886 [3]

Cicurina, also called the cave meshweaver, [4] is a genus in the spider family Cicurinidae. [5] It was first described by Anton Menge in 1871. [6] The name is from the Latin root "cucur-", meaning "to tame". [4]

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Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967, [3] then to the Hahniidae in 2017. [7] In 2023, it was moved to the Cicurinidae. [8]

Body size varies widely among the species. Among the smallest is C. minorata, growing less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. The larger species include C. ludoviciana, some of which have grown to over 13 millimetres (0.51 in) long. [9]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains 136 species in North America, Europe, and Asia: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Cicurina Menge, 1871". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ↑ Yaginuma, T. (1963). "Spiders from limestone caves of Akiyoshi Plateau". Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History. 2.
  3. 1 2 Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 268.
  4. 1 2 "Genus Cicurina". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  5. ↑ "Family: Cicurinidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 (genus list)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  6. ↑ Menge, A. (1871). "Preussische Spinnen. IV. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 265–296.
  7. ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 607. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID   34724759. S2CID   35535038.
  8. ↑ Gorneau, J.A.; Crews, S.C.; Cala-Riquelme, F.; Montana, K.O.; Spagna, J.C.; Ballarin, F.; Almeida-Silva, L.M. & Esposito, L.A. (2023). "Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 7 (5): 1–18. doi:10.1093/isd/ixad021.
  9. ↑ Chamberlin, Ralph; Ivie, Wilton (1940). "Agelenid spiders of the genus Cicurina". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 30 (13): 1–108.
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