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Genus: Cyclosa Menge, 1866 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Cyclosa albisternis Simon, 1888

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015565

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Described:

Distribution: India (mainland, Andaman Is.). Introduced to Hawaii

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 3f - (Tanikawa, 1992b)

Taxonomic References

Cyclosa albisternis Simon, 1888a: 285 (Dmf) Original description

Cyclosa albisternis Tanikawa, 1992b: 32, f. 56-60 (mf, removed from S of Cyclosa insulana, rejecting Gravely, 1921a: 413)

References

Simon, E. (1888a). Etudes sur le arachnides de l'Asie méridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta). II. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Andaman par M. R. D. Oldham. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, part II (Natural History) 56(3): 282-287. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (1992b). A revisional study of the Japanese spiders of the genus Cyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 41(1): 11-85. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.41.11 -- Show included taxa

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