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  2. Deinopidae - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    Spider The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien: A giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. She appears at the end of the fourth book, second volume (The Two Towers) of The Lord of the Rings. She is said to be a child of Ungoliant. Sergeant Stinkbug Stinkbug: Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn ...

  4. Category:Redirects to scientific names of spiders - Wikipedia

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    The pages in this category are redirects from the vernacular ("common") names of spiders to the scientific names. These pages are a subset of all redirects to scientific names. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R to scientific name|1=spider}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]. For ...

  5. The Largest Recorded Male Funnel-Web Spider Receives the Name ...

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    The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web spider yet, CNN reported. According to the zoo, which is located north of Syndey, Australia, the spider measures a ...

  6. Orb-weaver spider - Wikipedia

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    The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.

  7. Darwin's bark spider - Wikipedia

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    The average toughness of the fibres is 350 MJ/m 3, and some are up to 520 MJ/m 3, making the silk twice as tough as any other spider silk known. [8] The web of Darwin's bark spider is remarkable in that it is not only the longest spanning web ever observed, but is the largest orb web ever seen, at an area of up to 2.8 square metres (30 sq ft). [2]

  8. Spider taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Paintings of Araneus angulatus from Svenska Spindlar of 1757, the first major work on spider taxonomy. 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]

  9. Argiope aurantia - Wikipedia

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    Argiope aurantia is a species of spider, commonly known as the yellow garden spider, [2] [3] black and yellow garden spider, [4] golden garden spider, [5] writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider. [6] The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833.