Cicurina

Cicurina
C. cicur from France
Cicurina sp. from the "sky island" mountains of Arizona and New Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cicurinidae
Genus: Cicurina
Menge, 1871[1]
Type species
C. cicur
(Fabricius, 1793)
Species

158, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Moguracicurina Komatsu, 1947[2]
  • Tetrilus Simon, 1886[3]

Cicurina, also called the cave meshweaver,[4] is a genus in the spider family Cicurinidae.[5] It was first described by Anton Menge in 1871.[6] The name is from the Latin root "cucur-", meaning "to tame".[4]

Originally placed with the funnel weavers, it was moved to the Dictynidae in 1967,[3] then to the Hahniidae in 2017.[7] In 2023, it was moved to the Cicurinidae.[8]

Body size varies widely among the species. Among the smallest is C. minorata, growing less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. The larger species include C. ludoviciana, some of which have grown to over 13 millimetres (0.51 in) long.[9]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in North America, Europe, and Asia.[1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 158 species.[1]

These species have articles on Wikipedia:

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Cicurina Menge, 1871". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  2. ^ Yaginuma, T. (1963). "Spiders from limestone caves of Akiyoshi Plateau". Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History. 2.
  3. ^ a b Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 268.
  4. ^ a b "Genus Cicurina". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  5. ^ "Family: Cicurinidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 (genus list)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  6. ^ Menge, A. (1871). "Preussische Spinnen. IV. Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 2: 265–296.
  7. ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 607. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.
  8. ^ Gorneau, J.A.; Crews, S.C.; Cala-Riquelme, F.; Montana, K.O.; Spagna, J.C.; Ballarin, F.; Almeida-Silva, L.M. & Esposito, L.A. (2023). "Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 7 (5): 1–18. doi:10.1093/isd/ixad021.
  9. ^ Chamberlin, Ralph; Ivie, Wilton (1940). "Agelenid spiders of the genus Cicurina". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 30 (13): 1–108.
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