Cyrtophora citricola
(Tropical Tent-web Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Cyrtophora citricola, commonly known as Tropical Tent-web Spider, belongs to the genus Cyrtophora, in the family Araneidae. Cyrtophora citricola spiders have been sighted 9 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Cyrtophora citricola includes 3 countries and 1 states in the United States. Cyrtophora citricola is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Common Name (AAS)

Global Tentweb Weaver

Other Common Names

Global Tent-web Weaver, Tropical Tent-web Spider, Colonial Tent-web Orb-weaver

Author

(Forsskål, 1775)

Primary Colors

Sightings Overview

There have been 9 confirmed sightings of Cyrtophora citricola (Tropical Tent-web Spider), 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 9 sightings because of certain Cyrtophora citricola sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 78% of the time, Cyrtophora citricola spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 9)
Sex: 1 female and 0 male.
Environment: Cyrtophora citricola has been sighted 8 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (6). On flower (1). Low foliage (1).