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  2. Spitting spider - Wikipedia

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    Spitting spiders are a family of araneomorph spiders, the family Scytodidae, first described by John Blackwall in 1864. [2] It contains over 250 species in five genera , [ 1 ] of which Scytodes is the best-known.

  3. Scytodes thoracica - Wikipedia

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    Scytodes thoracica is a spitting spider, so called because it spits a venomous sticky silken substance over its prey. Its size ranges between 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in). The carapace is unusual in sloping upwards towards its rear end, whereas the abdomen slopes downwards. It has six eyes instead of the eight spiders usually have.

  4. Scytodes - Wikipedia

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    Scytodes is a genus of spitting spiders that occur all around the world. The most widely distributed species is Scytodes thoracica, which originally had a palearctic distribution, but has been introduced to North America, Argentina, India, Australia, and New Zealand. [1]

  5. List of Scytodidae species - Wikipedia

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    Brown spitting spider (Scytodes fusca), female. Chilean tiger spider (Scytodes globula) Scytodes velutina. Scytodes Latreille, 1804. S. adisi Rheims & Brescovit, 2009 ...

  6. Pooping, splooting, spitting: How wild animals beat the heat

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    Spitting and snotting. Two Australian animals put their bodily fluids to good use in the battle to beat the scorching temperatures of the outback. Red kangaroos, the largest species of marsupial ...

  7. Scytodes globula - Wikipedia

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    Scytodes globula, the Chilean tiger spider, is a predatory spider of the family Scytodidae.In Spanish, it is known as araña tigre, or "tiger spider", but is also well known as "long-legged spider" (because of the disproportional size of those members) or "spitting spider" (because of its hunting methods, in which it projects an extremely sticky web which immobilizes its prey).

  8. Spider - Wikipedia

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    Spitting spiders also produce silk in modified venom glands. [41] Silk is mainly composed of a protein very similar to that used in insect silk. It is initially a liquid, and hardens not by exposure to air but as a result of being drawn out, which changes the internal structure of the protein. [42]

  9. Scytodes longipes - Wikipedia

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    Scytodes longipes is a species of spitting spider in the family Scytodidae. It is found in Southern America, has been introduced into Pacific Islands, Guinea, Congo, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), and Australia (Queensland). [1] [2] [3] [4]