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Deinopidae

Jonathan Coddington
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Containing group: Orbiculariae

References

Blest, A.D. & M.F. Land. 1977. The physiological optics of Dinopis subrufus L. Koch: A fish lens in a spider. Proc. R. Soc. London (B) 196:197-222.

Blest, A.D. & D.G. Price. 1981. A new mechanism for transitory, local endocytosis in photoreceptors of a spider, Dinopis. Cell Tissue Res. 217:267-282.

Clyne, D. 1967. Notes on the construction of the nest and sperm-web of a cribellate spider Dinopis subrufus (Koch) (Araneida: Dinopidae). Aust. Zool. 14:189-198.

Coddington, J.A. 1986. Orb webs in 'non orb weaving' ogre faced spiders (Araneae: Dinopidae): a question of genealogy. Cladistics 2:53-67.

Coddington, J. & C. Sobrevila. 1987. Web manipulation and two stereotyped attack behaviors in the ogre-faced spider Deinopis spinosus Marx (Araneae, Deinopidae). J. Arachnology 15:213-225

Eberhard, W. & F. Pereira. 1993. Ultrastructure of cribellate silk of nine species in eight families and possible taxonomic implications (Araneae: Amaurobiidae, Deinopidae, Desidae, Dictynidae, Filistatidae, Hypochilidae, Stiphidiidae, Tengellidae). J. Arachnology 21:161-174.

Griswold, C.E., J.A. Coddington, G. Hormiga & N. Scharff. 1998. Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. May 123:1-99.

Peters, H.M. 1992. On the spinning apparatus and the structure of the capture threads of Deinopis subrufus (Araneae, Deinopidae). Zoomorphology 112:27-37.

Robinson, M.H. & B. Robinson. 1971. The predatory behavior of the ogre-faced spider, Dinopis longipes F. Cambridge (Araneae: Dinopidae). Amer. Midland Nat. 85:85-96.

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Scientific Name Deinopis spinosus
Location Gainesville, Florida
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By Jonathan Coddington
Sex Female
Life Cycle Stage adult
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Scientific Name Deinopidae
Location Gainesville, Florida
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Sex Female
Life Cycle Stage adult
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © Jonathan Coddington
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Jonathan Coddington
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., USA

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