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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cribellate Orb Weavers (Uloboridae) » Triangle web spiders (Hyptiotes) » Hyptiotes cavatus
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Triangle spider web - Hyptiotes cavatus - female
Copyright © 2006 norman and cheryl lavers

Triangle spider web - Hyptiotes cavatus - Female
St. Francis Sunken Lands WMA, Craighead County, Arkansas, USA
September 19, 2006
Size: 4 mm
The spider, holding his web taut, looks like a bud on a bare twig.

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Contributed by norman and cheryl lavers on 22 September, 2006 - 4:21pm
Last updated 18 January, 2014 - 11:22am

Moved
Moved from Triangle web spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 18 January, 2014 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Cool!
Terrific job of getting these images and contributing a new genus to Bugguide! These are among my favorite spiders, but very difficult to find!
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 September, 2006 - 5:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Triangle spider
Thanks for your comments. While we were taking the pictures, we got a clue abut their behavior. My wife Cheryl accidentally touched the web, so lightly, the spider seemed to think it was an insect, and released the web it was holding. It must have released it BEHIND itself, because the spider itself came shooting out to the middle of the web. Then, perhaps finding it a false alarm, with great shaking, it slowly reeled itself back to its original position. I believe we have recently seen movies of this happening with a British species on the Life in the Undergrowth series with David Attenborough.
… norman and cheryl lavers, 22 September, 2006 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

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