Family Mimetidae - Pirate spiders

Classification

Pirate Spider - Mimetus puritanus - female

Pirate Spider that ate an Orb Weaver - Mimetus

Mimetidae (Pirate spiders) egg sac - Ero

OC Pirate Spider - Reo eutypus - Reo eutypus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Mimetidae (Pirate spiders)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 September, 2004 - 3:32pm

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