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| Frontinella communis (Hentz, 1850) |
The bowl and doily spider, Frontinella communis, is a species of sheet weaver. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz ( July 25, 1797 - November 4, 1856) was born in Versailles France. Linyphiidae is a family of Spiders including more than 4300 described Species in 578 genera worldwide It is a small spider, about 4 mm (0. Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings 2 inch) long, that weaves a fairly complex sheet web system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web, or "bowl", suspended above a horizontal sheet web, or "doily", hence its common name. The spider hangs from the underside of the "bowl", and bites through the web small flies, gnats and other small insects that fall down into the non-sticky webbing. The webs are commonly seen in weedy fields and in shrubs, and may often contain both a male and a female spider in late summer - like many linyphiids, Frontinella may cohabitate for some time.
The scientific name F. pyramitela is commonly seen, but this is a junior synonym[1]. In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon.
Footnotes
- ^ Platnick 2007
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8. 0. American Museum of Natural History.
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