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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.
This page lists all described species of the spider family Scytodidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of January 2024 ... Brown spitting spider (Scytodes ...
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]
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This spider crafted its web on a window already decorated with fake spiders and webs in Bloomington, Ind., on Sept. 16, 2024. Why experts say to leave spiders in your home alone
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders" [1]) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down.
Coneweb spiders (Diguetidae) are six-eyed haplogyne spiders that live in tangled space webs, fashioning a cone-like central retreat where they hide and lay eggs. It is a small family, containing only two genera split between a range in the Southwestern United States and Mexico and a range in South America. [ 1 ]
Lynx spider (Oxyopidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. [1] Most species make little use of webs, instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on plants. Many species frequent flowers in particular, ambushing pollinators, much as crab spiders do. They tend to tolerate members of their own ...