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    Celaenia excavata, the bird dropping spider of Australia and New Zealand, derives its name from mimicking bird droppings to avoid predators, mainly birds...
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    Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868. As of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:...
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    Celaenia olivacea is a species of Araneidae spider that is native to New Zealand. This species was described as Thlaosoma olivacea in 1885 by Arthur Urquhart...
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    Celaenia atkinsoni is a species of Araneidae spider that is native to New Zealand and Australia. This species was described as Thlaosoma atkinsonii in...
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    or the informal group mastophorines. Recent studies show that the genus Celaenia, which does not use a bolas, belongs in the same taxonomic group. Bolas...
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  • Celaenia tuberosa is a species of Araneidae spider that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described as Thlaosoma tuberosa in 1889 by Arthur Urquhart...
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  • Celaenia hectori is a species of Araneidae spider that is native to New Zealand. This species was described as Thlaosoma hectori in 1880 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge...
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  • (disambiguation) Excavata, a taxonomic grouping of eukaryotic unicellular organisms Celaenia excavata, a spider All pages with titles containing Excavation This disambiguation...
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  • Celaenia penna is a species of Araneidae spider that is native to New Zealand. This species was described as Thlaosoma pennum in 1887 by Arthur Urquhart...
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    Asia Carepalxis L. Koch, 1872 — Oceania, South America, Mexico, Jamaica Celaenia Thorell, 1868 — Australia, New Zealand Cercidia Thorell, 1869 — Russia...
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  • Queensland, New South Wales Celaenia Thorell, 1868 Celaenia atkinsoni (O. P.-Cambridge, 1879) — Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand Celaenia calotoides Rainbow,...
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    Banded orb-weaving spider Austracantha minax, Christmas Jewel Spider Celaenia excavata, Bird-dropping spider Cyrtophora spp., Tent spiders Socca pustulosa...
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    Islands. Spider species in New Zealand include: Anoteropsis (wolf spiders) Celaenia spp Cambridgea spp. (sheetweb spider) Cryptachaea veruculata Delena cancerides...
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  • is a common name for several spiders and may refer to: Arkys curtulus Celaenia excavata, a species native to eastern Australia Mastophora, a genus native...
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    alternative name Mastophoreae for the group. Simon placed two genera, Celaenia and Taczanowskia, in the group Celaenieae. These three groups, Cyrtarachneae...
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    unrelated genera Doryonychus of Tetragnathidae, Hetrogriffus of Thomisidae and Celaenia of Araneidae. Trogloraptor spin simple webs with only a few strands, hung...
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  • Bertrana Keyserling, 1884 Caerostris Thorell, 1868 Carepalxis L. Koch, 1872 Celaenia Thorell, 1868 Cercidia Thorell, 1869 Chorizopes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870...
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