Cyrtognatha

Cyrtognatha; Temporal range: Neogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Cyrtognatha; Keyserling, 1881
Type species
	C. nigrovittata; Keyserling, 1881
Species
	21, see text
Synonyms
	Agriognatha O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896;

Cyrtognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881. It is a senior synonym of Agriognatha. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.

Species

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

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)

References

1 2 3 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.
1 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.
↑ 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.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 3 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.

[Dimi2009-2] 1 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.

[Keys1881-3] 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.