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nursery web spiders

Thaumasia velox

Classification

Order
Araneae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Argentina · 200Uruguay · 7Paraguay · 2Brazil · 1