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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Cyrtophora |
Species: | C. hirta
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Binomial name | |
Cyrtophora hirta
L.Koch 1872
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Cyrtophora hirta is a species of tent spider found in the Australia. The southern range of distribution is near Sydney, [1] though there are New Guinea and Tasmanian records on the Atlas of Living Australia. [2] Ludwig Koch described the species in 1872 from specimens from Bowen, Queensland. [1]
The body length of the female is 10 mm, the male 5 mm. Food is small insects. Many spiders and their tent shaped webs may be found in close proximity. The spider retreats into a white mass of web in the centre, often stained by the remains of prey. The egg sac is plano-convex in shape, 10 mm in diameter, coloured greenish-white. Eggs are pale cream in colour, 0.8 mm in diameter, not glutinous and around 50 eggs per egg sac. [1] [3] [4]
Cyrtophora hirta | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Cyrtophora |
Species: | C. hirta
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Binomial name | |
Cyrtophora hirta
L.Koch 1872
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Cyrtophora hirta is a species of tent spider found in the Australia. The southern range of distribution is near Sydney, [1] though there are New Guinea and Tasmanian records on the Atlas of Living Australia. [2] Ludwig Koch described the species in 1872 from specimens from Bowen, Queensland. [1]
The body length of the female is 10 mm, the male 5 mm. Food is small insects. Many spiders and their tent shaped webs may be found in close proximity. The spider retreats into a white mass of web in the centre, often stained by the remains of prey. The egg sac is plano-convex in shape, 10 mm in diameter, coloured greenish-white. Eggs are pale cream in colour, 0.8 mm in diameter, not glutinous and around 50 eggs per egg sac. [1] [3] [4]