Bowl and doily spider

The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America.[1] It is a small spider, about 4 mm (0.16 in) 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.

Bowl and doily spider
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Frontinella
Species:
F. pyramitela
Binomial name
Frontinella pyramitela
Synonyms[1]
  • Linyphia pyramitela Walckenaer, 1841
  • Linyphia communis Hentz, 1850
  • Frontinella communis (Hentz, 1850)
Several bowl and doily spider's webs wet with dew, on a trail in the Adirondacks, between Long Pond and Bessie Pond, St. Regis Canoe Area

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Charles Walckenaer in 1841 as Linyphia pyramitela. In 1850, Nicholas Hentz described Linyphia communis. Both were later transferred to the genus Frontinella and are now regarded as the same species, with Frontinella communis being a junior synonym.[1]

Close-up.
gollark: It doesn't seem to be.
gollark: Also, what are the restrictions on them? I ask because I want to use this as an insane serial protocol.
gollark: <@237328509234708481> What is the max length of labels?
gollark: Also, redstone integrators.
gollark: Combined with the 0 to 15 regular redstone transmission rate, adjacent devices can transfer 2.5 bytes per tick with no peripherals, though I imagine autodetection could be annoying.

References
  1. "Taxon details Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2019-02-23
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.