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SpiderMAP:   1709
Province:   Gauteng
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2627BB
Observer:   van Rensburg Philip
Date of record:   2014-05-01
Number of photos:   3
Notes:   Found around the verandah light of my friend's home. There were many spiders in a large untidy web strewn with carcasses of moths, etc.
Last updated:   2020-12-03 13:24:54
Sp. code:   701820
Species name:   Cyrtophora citricola
Common name:   Tropical tent-web spiders
Family:   Araneidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=SpiderMAP-1709
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 1709 - photo: 1
VM-number: 1709 - photo: 2
VM-number: 1709 - photo: 3

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Ethne Engelking
Comment:  
Date:   2017-04-23 00:41:54
Species name:   Cyrtophora citricola -- Tropical tent-web spiders
Species code:   701820

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