Cercidia prominens
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| Cercidia prominens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Cercidia |
| Species: | C. prominens |
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| Cercidia prominens (Westring, 1851) | |
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Cercidia prominens is a species of orb-weaver spiders in the spider family Araneidae.[2][3][4][5] It is found in North America, Europe, the Caucasus, and a range from Russia to Kazakhstan.[1]
The species was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851 as Epeira prominens.[1] In 1866, Anton Menge made it the type species of his new genus Cerceis. However, this genus name had already been used in 1840 for a genus of crustaceans, so was not available. The replacement name Cercidia was published by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869,[6] and this species became Cercidia prominens.[1]
