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    Orb-weaver spider (redirect from Araneidae)
    Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens...
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  • family Araneidae as of Nov. 5, 2013. List of Araneidae species: A List of Araneidae species: B–F List of Araneidae species: G–M List of Araneidae species:...
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  • This page lists all described species of the spider family Araneidae as of Dec. 20, 2016, that start with the letter A. Acacesia Simon, 1895 Acacesia...
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    spider or banana spider, is an orb-weaving spider belonging to the family Araneidae. This species occurs on several islands in the western Pacific Ocean,...
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    Nuctenea umbratica (category Araneidae)
    umbratica, the walnut orb-weaver spider, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae. The species name umbratica means "living in the shadows" in Latin. The...
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    Argiope lobata (category Araneidae stubs)
    Argiope lobata is a species of spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It has a wide distribution encompassing the whole of Africa and stretching to...
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    spotted orbweaver and zig-zag spider, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae. It is distributed in the Americas, from Kansas and California south to...
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  • Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Araneidae Genus: Ursa Simon, 1895 Type species U. pulchra Simon, 1895 Species 5...
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    various genera in Nephilidae were formerly placed in Tetragnathidae and Araneidae. All nephilid genera partially renew their webs. The genera Herennia,...
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    Larinioides sclopetarius (category Araneidae)
    revision of the Holarctic genus Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934 (Araneae: Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3894 (1): 61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334...
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    flies, and mosquitoes to other small spiders.[citation needed] List of Araneidae species Spider families staff, the Bug Room (19 August 2004). "Bug Facts...
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    Araneus cingulatus (category Araneidae stubs)
    cingulatus is a species of orb weaver in the family of spiders known as Araneidae. It is found in the United States and British Columbia, Canada. "Araneus...
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    the marbled orbweaver, is a species of spider belonging to the family Araneidae. It is sometimes also called the pumpkin spider from the resemblance of...
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    web decorations are common in several spider species in the families Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, and Uloboridae, they are probably best known from spiders...
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    Eriophora ravilla (category Araneidae)
    tropical orb weaver, is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae. It is found in a range from the United States to Brazil. "Eriophora ravilla...
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    orbweaver or redfemured spotted orbweaver, is a spider in the family Araneidae. The specific epithet domiciliorum means "of dwellings" in Latin and refers...
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    Araneus bicentenarius (category Araneidae stubs)
    the giant lichen orbweaver, is a species of orb weaver in the family Araneidae. It is found in the USA and Canada. The giant lichen orb weaver occurs...
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    (Caerostris darwini) is an orb-weaver spider – a member of the family Araneidae. Like other spiders of the genus, they display extreme sexual dimorphism...
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    as the tropical tent-web spider, is an orb-weaver spider in the family Araneidae. It is found in Asia, Africa, Australia, Costa Rica, Hispaniola, Colombia...
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    Araneus (category Araneidae genera)
    Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805, for a range of spiders now considered Araneidae (orb-weavers). Over time, a rather diverse set of spiders was grouped...
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    cannibalism, size dimorphism, and courtship behavior in orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae)". Evolution. 45 (2): 444–448. doi:10.2307/2409679. JSTOR 2409679. PMID 28567867...
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    Neoscona crucifera is an orb-weaver spider in the family Araneidae. It is found in the United States from Maine to Florida in the east, to Minnesota in...
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    Bolas spider (category Araneidae)
    A bolas spider is a member of the orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae) that, instead of spinning a typical orb web, hunts by using one or more sticky...
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    cancriformis (spinybacked orbweaver) is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World. The genus name Gasteracantha...
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    Spined micrathena (category Araneidae)
    Micrathena gracilis is a spider in the family Araneidae (orb-weavers), commonly known as the spined micrathena or castleback orbweaver. This spider spins...
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  • two currently described species. (The genus was formerly placed in the Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.) The genus Nephilingis has been split off from this...
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    Neoscona theisi is a species of spider in the family Araneidae. Spiders in the genus Neoscona have a mostly pantropical distribution. Neoscona theisi...
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    x. Herberstein, M.E. (2000). "Foraging behaviour in orb-web spiders (Araneidae): Do web decorations increase prey capture success in Argiope keyserlingi...
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    Araneus circe (category Araneidae stubs)
    an orb-weaving spider species with a Palearctic distribution. List of Araneidae species: A Wikimedia Commons has media related to Araneus circe. Wikispecies...
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    that are functional, though not as impressive as some orb webs of the Araneidae; Portia webs are of an unusual funnel shape and apparently adapted to...
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