Cyrtognatha

Cyrtognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[3] It is a senior synonym of Agriognatha.[2]

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881[1]
Type species
C. nigrovittata Keyserling, 1881
Species
21, see text
Synonyms[1]
Agriognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896[2]

Species

As of October 2019 it contains twenty-one species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama:[1]

• Cyrtognatha atopica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Argentina
• Cyrtognatha bella (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Costa Rica
• Cyrtognatha bryantae (Chickering, 1956) – Jamaica
• Cyrtognatha catia Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Colombia
• Cyrtognatha eberhardi Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil
• Cyrtognatha espanola (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola
• Cyrtognatha insolita (Chickering, 1956) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Cyrtognatha lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama
• Cyrtognatha leviorum Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Panama
• Cyrtognatha morona Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador
• Cyrtognatha nigrovittata Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Peru
• Cyrtognatha orphana Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Brazil
• Cyrtognatha pachygnathoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894) – Costa Rica, Panama
• Cyrtognatha paradoxa Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico
• Cyrtognatha pathetica Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Guatemala
• Cyrtognatha petila Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Mexico
• Cyrtognatha quichua Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador
• Cyrtognatha rucilla (Bryant, 1945) – Hispaniola
• Cyrtognatha serrata Simon, 1898 – Martinique, St. Vincent
• Cyrtognatha simoni (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
• Cyrtognatha waorani Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2009 – Ecuador

In synonymy:

• C. argyra (Bryant, 1945) = Cyrtognatha rucilla (Bryant, 1945)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
2. Dimitrov, D.; Hormiga, G. (2009). "Revision and cladistic analysis of the orbweaving spider genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 317: 30. doi:10.1206/317.1. S2CID 84110902.
3. Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 31: 269–314. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.20318.