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Deinopidae, also known as net casting spiders, is a family of cribellate [1] spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. [2] It consists of stick-like elongated spiders that catch prey by stretching a web across their front legs before propelling themselves forward.
Philoponella congregabilis, sometimes referred to as the little humped spider, [2] is an Australian species of communal spider that, like other species of Uloboridae, does not use venom. Instead it wraps its prey in spider silk to crush it to death. [ 3 ]
Little is known about the mating habits and reproductive timing of the banded tunnelweb spider, as it has proven difficult to observe them mating inside their silk tunnel constructs. [4] It is assumed that mating takes place inside the burrow of the female spider, although there are no reported sightings of the actual mating taking place. [5]
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. [1] It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, [2] and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. [3]
Drapetisca socialis is a species of spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae.It is distributed across most of the Palearctic region.. Even among the diminutive spiders in this family, this is a very small species with a body length (excluding legs) of just 3 mm.
Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy ...
The 110 million year-old amber-preserved web is also the oldest to show trapped insects, containing a beetle, a mite, a wasp's leg, and a fly. [13] The ability to weave orb webs is thought to have been "lost", and sometimes even re-evolved or evolved separately, in different species of spiders since its first appearance.
Male Euoplos dignitas spiders grow larger than females and have a brighter red coloring with long spindly legs. Females have a more muted red-brown coloring and compact build. A male Euoplos ...