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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.
Leptonetidae is a family of small spiders adapted to live in dark and moist places such as caves. [1] The family is relatively primitive having diverged around the Middle Jurassic period. [ 2 ] They were first described by Eugène Simon in 1890.
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".
Category:Holarctic spiders – spiders native to the Holarctic; includes northern North America and the Palearctic; Category:Palearctic spiders – spiders native to the Palearctic, a subregion of the Holarctic; includes Europe, northern Asia and northern Africa; Category:Pantropical spiders – spiders native throughout the tropics
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]
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.
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]
Trite planiceps, commonly known as the black-headed jumping spider, is a common jumping spider (Salticidae) endemic to New Zealand and one of about 150 species of jumping spiders in New Zealand. Taxonomy