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Bifurcate Trashline Orbweaver

Allocyclosa bifurca

Classification

Order
Araneae
Family
Araneidae

Allocyclosa is a genus of orb weaver spiders that contains only one species, Allocyclosa bifurca. It was first described in 1887 by McCook under the name Cyrtophora bifurca, and was transferred to its own genus in 1999. It is the only Cyclosa species north of Mexico to have a forked rear tip of the abdomen hence the name bifurca, Latin for "two-pronged".

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 440Mexico · 55