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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyPisauridae
キシダグモ科はクモ目に含まれる分類群の一つ。大型のクモも多く含まれ、特にハシリグモ類は水辺によく見られる大型種が多い。徘徊性のものと網を張るものが入り交じる。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 944
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Collections
- FMNH, MCZ
- Recorded in
- MéXico, Laos, Madagascar, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, United States, Thailand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lycosoidea
- Image
- Pisaura mirabilis.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pisauridae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Pisauridae
- topic's main category
- Category:Pisauridae
- Commons gallery
- Pisauridae
- taxon common name
- rovedderkopper
- taxonomic type
- Pisaura
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Encyclopedic overview
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. Females of the family are known for building special nursery webs. When their eggs are about to hatch, a female spider builds a tent-like web, places her egg sac inside, and stands guard outside, hence the family's common name. Like wolf spiders, however, nursery web spiders are roaming hunters that do not use webs for catching prey.
The name "nursery web spider" is especially given to the European species Pisaura mirabilis. Adult female specimens may reach up to 15 mm in length, excluding legs. The legs of the male are longer in relation to body size than those of the female.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pisauridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.