Species Holocnemus pluchei - Marbled Cellar Spider

Classification · Remarks · Internet References

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Haplogynes)

Family Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders)

Genus Holocnemus

Species pluchei (Marbled Cellar Spider)

Remarks

Introduced from the Mediterranean area in the 1970's.

Dr. Elizabeth Jakob has studied these spiders extensively and has published several papers on their habits and behavior. She notes in one article: "These spiders (Holocnemus pluchei) may live alone or share a sheet web with as many as 15 conspecifics of all sizes, and group membership appears to be temporally fluid..."

Internet References

Journal of Arachnology

Another Journal of Arachnology article, from Dr. Jakob, on competition for prey between conspecifics in group webs.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 26 October, 2005 - 1:51pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, kschnei
Last updated 5 September, 2008 - 11:47am

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