Cyrtophora
(Tent-web Spiders)

Cyrtophora, commonly known as Tent-web Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Cyrtophora spiders have been sighted 6 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Cyrtophora includes 1 countries and 1 states in the United States. Cyrtophora is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

Overview

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Cyrtophora

Other Common Names

Tent-web Spiders

Author

Simon, 1864

Sightings Overview

There have been 6 confirmed sightings of Cyrtophora (Tent-web Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 31, 2019 by Spider ID member amelia1234. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 6 sightings because of certain Cyrtophora sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 67% of the time, Cyrtophora spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 6)
Sex: 1 female and 0 male.
Environment: Cyrtophora has been sighted 5 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5).