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Wong Tsu Shi | profile | all galleries >> Araneae - Spiders of Borneo, Spiders of Sabah, Malaysia. >> ULOBORIDAE - Feather-legged Spiders | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Uloboridae is a family of nonvenomous spiders, known as cribellate orb weavers or hackled orb weavers. Their lack of venom glands is a secondarily evolved trait. Instead, they wrap their prey thoroughly in silk, cover it in regurgitated digestive enzymes, and then ingest the liquified body. All members of this family produce a feathery, fuzzy silk called cribellate (or hackled) silk. These spiders do not use an adhesive on their orb webs, but rather the very fine fibers on each strand of silk tend to ensnare prey. Uloboridae webs often have a stabilimentum or zig-zag pattern through the center.Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spider identification from photographs should not be definitive in many cases.
For positive identification of many spiders, it is often necessary to examine their copulatory organs under a microscope.
Quote from : Borneo Spiders: A Photographic Field Guide by Joseph K H Koh and Nicky Bay
The gallery images are my Amateurish ID, would be grateful for ID correction.
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Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro) | 01-Apr-2021 17:42 | |