Cyrtognatha
Genus of spiders
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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] Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
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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 | |
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Species
As of October 2019[update] 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)