- English: Tent-Web Spider
- Spanish: Araña orbitela de las chumberas
- Scientific: Cyrtophora citricola
- French: l’Épeire de l’Opuntia
- German: Opuntienspinne
- Portuguese: Tecedeira-colonial
- Distribution: Almost worldwide in warm and temperate zones covering Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and US and South America.
Description
Remember that the Tent-Web Spider – Cyrtophora citricola – Araña orbitela de las chumberas can change its color to blend in with the environment but normally, the abdomen (opisthosoma) is brown to black in colour with varied white markings and often three pairs of spots. There are three pairs of tubercles, the last being more pronounced and creating a bifurcation at the rear of the abdomen.
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