Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
4-455.__.00
Theridiidae
English: Tangle-web spiders; Cobweb spiders; Comb-footed spiders.
Clades: Araneae; Arachnida; Arthropoda; Animals.
Members: 3000 species; 124 genera; most common arthropod.
Use: venom and its clinical manifestation; study of spider silk, sexual biology, sexual cannibalism.
Zoology
Spiders; araneomorph; both entelegyne, meaning that the females have a genital plate, and ecribellate, meaning that they spin sticky capture silk instead of woolly silk; with a comb of serrated bristles (setae) on the tarsus of the fourth leg.