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Kingdom of the Spiders is a 1977 American science fiction horror film directed by John "Bud" Cardos and produced by Igo Kantor and Jeffrey M. Sneller. The screenplay is credited to Richard Robinson and Alan Caillou , from an original story by Sneller and Stephen Lodge .
Kingdom of the Spiders was one of several horror and science fiction films of the 1970s that reflected a growing sentiment of environmentalism in North America, such as Day of the Animals, Night of the Lepus, Killer Bees, Frogs and Silent Running.
When the spider was later described scientifically as Euophrys omnisuperstes, it was found to be the same species as specimens collected by T. G. Longstaff in 1922 (i.e. before Hingston's observations in 1924) around the Everest base camp, at the lower altitude of 5,000 m (16,500 ft). [6] [7]
A spider's body comprises two regions: the prosoma or cephalothorax (anterior end) and the opisthosoma or abdomen (posterior end). [5] Both regions are responsible for their own functions and are linked by a narrow stalk called a pedicel. [5] The prosoma is segmented and protected by the sternum, carapace, and a plate on the dorsal and ventral ...
Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order of the arthropod class Arachnida, which has more than 48,500 described species. [1]
Colossendeis is a genus of sea spider (class Pycnogonida) belonging to the family Colossendeidae. [1] These sea spiders are typically found in the deep sea. This genus includes the largest pycnogonids, with leg spans frequently ranging from 40 to 50 cm (16-20 in). [2] The largest sea spider, Colossendeis colossea, can reach a leg span of 70 cm ...
Hexathelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders. [1] It is one of a number of families and genera of spiders known as tunnelweb or funnel-web spiders . In 2018, the family was substantially reduced in size by genera being moved to three separate families: Atracidae , Macrothelidae and Porrhothelidae .
This suborder is thought to form the sister group to all other living spiders, and to retain ancestral characters, such as a segmented abdomen with spinnerets in the middle and two pairs of book lungs. Extant members of the Mesothelae are medium to large spiders with eight eyes grouped on a tubercle.