Species Mastophora cornigera

Classification

Bolas spider - Mastophora cornigera - female

Elgin bolas spider - dorsal view - Mastophora cornigera - female

Elgin bolas spider - egg sacs - Mastophora cornigera

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)

Genus Mastophora (Bolas Spiders)

Species cornigera (Mastophora cornigera)

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 29 May, 2006 - 9:50am

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