''Cyphalonotus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1895.
Species
it contains seven species:
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Cyphalonotus assuliformis''
Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
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Cyphalonotus benoiti''
Archer, 1965 – Congo
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Cyphalonotus columnifer''
Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
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Cyphalonotus elongatus''
Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China
*''
Cyphalonotus larvatus''
(Simon, 1881) – Congo, East Africa, Yemen (Socotra)
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Cyphalonotus selangor''
Dzulhelmi, 2015 – Malaysia
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Cyphalonotus sumatranus''
Simon, 1899 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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