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Black house spider in its web. The web of B. insignis is a messy-looking construct of irregular sail-like shapes. There is a funnel-shaped, silken retreat, usually in the middle or corner of the web, where the spider spends most of its time waiting for prey. The female spider never leaves the web unless forced to.
Nicodamidae is a family of araneomorph spiders with twenty-seven species in seven genera. [1] They are small to medium-sized spiders found near the ground of eucalypt forest in small sheet webs. The species of this family are only present in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... This page lists all described species of the spider family Ctenizidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of December 2020 ...
Badumna is a genus of intertidal spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890. [5] They are harmless spiders that can be found around human structures and buildings. The most well-known species is B. insignis , also known as the "black house spider" or "black window spider".
Amaurobius ferox, sometimes known as the black lace-weaver, is a common nocturnal spider belonging to the family Amaurobiidae and genus Amaurobius. Its genus includes three subsocial species, A. fenestralis, A. similis and A. ferox , all three of which have highly developed subsocial organizations.
The eye arrangement of spiders in the genus Latrodectus. Female widow spiders are typically dark brown or a shiny black in colour when they are full grown, usually exhibiting a red or orange hourglass on the ventral surface (underside) of the abdomen; some may have a pair of red spots or have no marking at all.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... This page lists all described species of the spider family Sicariidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of December 2020: [1]
Latrodectus mactans, known as southern black widow or simply black widow, and the shoe-button spider, [citation needed] is a venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. The females are well known for their distinctive black and red coloring and for the fact that they will occasionally eat their mates after reproduction.