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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Bolas Spiders (Mastophora) » Mastophora stowei

Species Mastophora stowei

Classification · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus Mastophora (Bolas Spiders)
Species stowei (Mastophora stowei)
Identification
Where M. bisaccata, stowei & yeargani overlap in range they can be separated by the following:

1. M. bisaccata has only venter of femur I dark.
2. M. stowei has all femora dark dorsally and clypeus dark.
3. M. yeargani has no dorsal dark femora & no dark clypeus.
Range
widespread in the eastern US (1)
Works Cited
1.The Bolas Spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)
Herbert W. Levi. 2003. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: 157, 309-382.
Contributed by Tyler Hedlund on 17 June, 2020 - 10:13am
Last updated 28 November, 2022 - 8:13am

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