Family Uloboridae - Cribellate Orb Weavers

Classification · Identification · Remarks · Internet References

Featherlegged Spider, male - Uloborus - male

Triangle spider web - Hyptiotes - female

Feathered-legged Spider - Uloborus - female

Uloborus female from grapes 2 - Uloborus diversus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Uloboridae (Cribellate Orb Weavers)

Identification

See Internet References below.

Remarks

This family is unique among spiders in our area in having no venom at all.

Internet References

The Spider Family Uloboridae in North America north of Mexico, Muma and Gertsch revision, American Novitates, 1964. (PDF format)

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz, kschnei
Last updated 7 February, 2009 - 10:43pm

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