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Cicurina
Sign in to saveCicurina, also called the cave meshweaver, is a genus in the spider family Cicurinidae. It was first described by Anton Menge in 1871. The name is from the Latin root "cucur-", meaning "to tame".
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyHahniidae
Observations recorded10,761
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,002
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Collections
- DMNS, TTU, EMEC, MCZ, UAM, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Cicurina, also called the cave meshweaver, is a genus in the spider family Cicurinidae. It was first described by Anton Menge in 1871. The name is from the Latin root "cucur-", meaning "to tame".
Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967, then to the Hahniidae in 2017. In 2023, it was moved to the Cicurinidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cicurina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.