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    araneoid spiders. Spider taxonomy Insect evolution Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason (2014). "Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct...
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    of the earliest forms, and spiders that produce tangled cobwebs are more abundant and diverse than orb-weaver spiders. Spider-like arachnids with silk-producing...
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    architectures; other names for this spider family include tangle-web spiders and comb-footed spiders.[citation needed] When spiders moved from the water to the...
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    scientific names of some 67 spiders species in his Svenska Spindlar ("Swedish Spiders"), one year before Linnaeus named over 30 spiders in his Systema Naturae...
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    Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens...
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    Sometimes one pair of eyes is better developed than the rest. Several families of hunting spiders, such as jumping spiders and wolf spiders, have fair to excellent...
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    (December 2007). "The Role of Behavior in the Evolution of Spiders, Silks, and Webs" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 38: 819–846...
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    is that the presence of venomous spiders led to the evolution of a fear of spiders, or made the acquisition of a fear of spiders especially easy. However...
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    production of new spider webs. Some spiders, such as the dewdrop spiders (Argyrodes), even eat the silk of other spider species. Spiders typically have...
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    Lampshade spiders, family Hypochilidae, are among the most primitive of araneomorph spiders. There are two genera and twelve species currently recognized...
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    (kéras) 'horn') constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda. Chelicerates include the sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, and arachnids...
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    as trapdoor spiders due to their creation of trapdoors over their burrows. Other prominent groups include Australian funnel web spiders and tarantulas...
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    and deep waters. Despite their name and brief resemblance, "sea spiders" are not spiders, nor even arachnids. While some literature around the 2000s suggests...
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    Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...
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    diversification of molluscs through geologic time Evolution of spiders – Origin from a chelicerate ancestor and diversification of spiders through geologic...
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  • successful with time. Evolution of arthropods Evolution of butterflies Evolution of spiders "Landmark study on the evolution of insects". Sciencedaily...
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    casting spiders, is a family of cribellate spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. It consists of stick-like elongated spiders that catch...
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    largest family of spiders – comprising 13% of spider species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods — being capable of stereoptic...
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  • A number of spiders can cause spider bites that are medically important. Almost all spiders produce venom but only a few are able to cause significant...
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    passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but wolf spiders carry their egg sacs by attaching...
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    however, appear to be crucial for the evolution of sociality in spiders. Recent theory suggests that social spiders evolved along a restricted pathway through...
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    Solifugae (redirect from Camel Spiders)
    Solifugae is an order of arachnids known variously as solifuges, sun spiders, camel spiders, and wind scorpions. The order includes more than 1,000 described...
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    endangered. Theories abound about the evolution of the atelines; one theory is they are most closely related to the woolly spider monkeys (Brachyteles), and most...
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    (/əˈræknɪdə/) of the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip...
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    Chelicerae (redirect from Fang (spider))
    (/kəˈlɪsəriː/) are the mouthparts of the subphylum Chelicerata, an arthropod group that includes arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. Commonly referred to...
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    Opiliones (redirect from Harvest spider)
    and often misidentified as spiders (order Araneae), the Opiliones are a distinct order that is not closely related to spiders. They can be easily distinguished...
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    common house spider or American house spider, is a spider species of the genus Parasteatoda with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common house spiders are synanthropic...
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    invertebrates caught mid-air is a spider. Out of 28,739 specimens, 1,401 turned out to be spiders. Ballooning is a behavior in which spiders and some other invertebrates...
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    Mesothelae (redirect from Gigantic spider)
    dividing spiders into two subgroups, Mesothelae for Liphistius, and Opisthothelae for all other spiders. The names refer to the position of the spinning...
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  • "Spider-Man™ Popsicle®". SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED SERIES RANKED WORST TO BEST, on The Nerdist. The Evolution of Spider-Man: A Comparative Analysis of Different...
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