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Genus: Cicurina Menge, 1871 | Family: Cicurinidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893

Cicurina calyciforma Wang & Xu, 1989

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022130

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China f - (Wang, Zhou & Peng, 2019)
Allotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m - (Lin, 2024)
Holotype: Jilin University (JLU) [= Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences], Changchun, China f of Cybaeus desmaeus - (Lin, 2024)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 4m 5f - (Lin, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Cicurina calyciforma Wang & Xu, 1989: 4, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Cybaeus desmaeus Zhu & Wang, 1992a: 343, f. 6-7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021364]

Cybaeus desmaeus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 355, f. 208E-F (f)

Cicurina calyciforma Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 363, f. 213Q-R, 214G-H (mf)

Cicurina calyciforma Zhang & Wang, 2017: 247, 7 f. (mf)

Cicurina calyciforma Wang, Zhou & Peng, 2019: 353, f. 11A-G (mf)

Cicurina calyciforma Lin, 2024: 38 (S of of Cybaeus desmaeus)

References

Lin, Y. J. (2024). Taxonomy notes on twenty-five spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. The Indochina Entomologist 1(6): 35-48. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.06 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wang, J. F. & Xu, Y. J. (1989). A new species of spider of the genus Cicurina from China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 8(4): 4-5. -- Show included taxa

Wang, L. Y., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2019). Four new species of the spider genus Cicurina Menge, 1871 from China (Araneae: Dictynidae). Zootaxa 4615(2): 351-364. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.7 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Z. S. & Wang, L. Y. (2017). Chinese spiders illustrated. Chongqing University Press, 954 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhu, C. D. & Wang, J. F. (1992a). Four new species of the genus Cybaeus from China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences 18: 342-345. -- 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	Comment
2024-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Lin, 2024
2024-10-29	Species synonymy	Lin, 2024	Cicurina desmaea synonymized with Cicurina calyciforma
2019-06-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Wang, Zhou & Peng, 2019
2019-03-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Wang, 2017