World Spider Catalog

Genus: Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Cyrtarachne finniganae Lessert, 1936

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015752

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa

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Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027187) - (Lessert, 1936)

Taxonomic References

Cyrtarachne finnigani Lessert, 1936: 249, f. 43-45 (Dm; decicated to Miss S. Finnegan, per Bonnet) Original description

Cyrtarachne finniganae Bonnet, 1956: 1344 (correction of specific epithet)

Cyrtarachne finniganae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2026b: 22, f. 1-7 (m)

References

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. (2026b). The first record of Cyrtarachne finniganae Lessert, 1936 from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 57: 22. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19235925 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.144393 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-03-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2026b
2026-03-27	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2026b	Old value
2025-09-24	Species updated	Lessert, 1936	Old value	Error corrected