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Cyrtophorinae
Cyrtophorinae is a subfamily of spiders in the orb-weaver spider family. Unlike other orb-weavers, spiders belonging to Cyrtophorinae build horizontal, finely meshed platforms within a tangle of irregular webs. The usually dome-shaped platform is a non-sticky orb web.
Cyrtophorinae includes the following six genera:
- Cyrtobill Framenau & Scharff, 2009
- Cyrtophora Simon, 1864 (Tent-web spiders)
- Kapogea Levi, 1997
- Mecynogea Simon, 1903
- Megaraneus Lawrence, 1968
- Manogea Levi, 1997