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Aranha-de-tenda-de-cinco-pintas
Uroctea durandi
41.8453, -8.23424
Field Notes
Description:
Uroctea durandi is a Mediterranean spider of about 16mm, dark with five yellow spots on its back. From each of the six openings two signaling threads protrude; When an insect or millipede touches one of these threads, the spider lunges out of the respective opening and catches its prey (Wikipedia).
Habitat:
It lives under rocks, where it constructs an upside-down tent-like hanging web about 4 cm in diameter (Wikipedia).
Notes:
Found this little spider on a tree trunk, on the Peneda-Gerês National Park.
Species ID Suggestions
2
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMay 9, 2014
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