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Spitting spiders
Scytodes thoracica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Scytodoidea
Family: Scytodidae
Blackwall, 1864
Diversity
5 genera, 169 species

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Spitting spiders (family Scytodidae) are spiders of the genus Scytodes and their relatives. Scytodes thoracica is a Spitting spider. In Northern Europe they can only be found in houses Arthropods are Animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, " Joint " Arachnids are a class ( Arachnida) of joint-legged Invertebrate Animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings The Scytodoidea are a Superfamily of spiders They contain four families of six-eyed spiders Drymusidae Periegopidae John Blackwall ( January 20, 1790 - May 1881 was a British naturalist. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year This page lists all described species of the spider family Scytodidae as of Oct Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic There are five genera and over 150 species of scytodids worldwide. They catch their prey by spitting a fluid that immobilizes it by congealing on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. This article is about the class of Biotoxins For other uses see Venom (disambiguation and Venomous (disambiguation. They can be observed swaying from side to side, in order to cover the prey in a crisscrossed "Z" pattern; each of two pores in the chelicerae emits half of the pattern. The Chelicerae are mouth parts of the Chelicerata, an Arthropod Subphylum that includes Arachnids, Merostomata

Like the Sicariidae and Diguetidae these spiders are haplogyne (lack hardened female genitalia) and have six eyes, which are arranged as three pairs. The spider family Sicariidae is a family of venomous Spiders known for their Necrotic venom The coneweb spiders of the family Diguetidae are six-eyed haplogyne (lacking hardened female genitalia or Epigyne) Spiders that live in The Haplogynae are a series of araneomorph spiders Unlike the Entelegynae, they lack hardened (sclerotized female genitalia ( Epigynes Eyes are organs that detect Light, and send signals along the Optic nerve to the visual areas of the brain They differ from these in having a dome-shaped carapace and in their characteristic flecked pattern of spots, which to Westerners often resembles Arabic or Chinese writing. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language

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This arachnid-related article is a stub. Scytodes is a genus of spitting spider that occurs all around the world Pierre André Latreille ( November 20, 1762 - February 6, 1833) was a French entomologist. Seychelles (seɪˈʃɛl or /seɪˈʃɛlz/ in English and seʃɛl in French) officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles Creole This page lists all described species of the spider family Scytodidae as of Oct Spider taxonomy is the Alpha taxonomy of the Spiders members of the Araneae order of the arthropod Arachnids are a class ( Arachnida) of joint-legged Invertebrate Animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Dictionary

spitting spider

-noun

  1. any spider from the family Scytodidae. These spiders catch their prey by spitting an immobilizing fluid at them.
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