Stats

Lifespan

Annual

Size

Tiny

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Cathemeral

Social

Colony

Biome

Tropical forest

Range

North America

Movement

Walking

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Herd Safety

Status

Uncommon

About

Mexican Social Spiders are a group of spiders that live in colonies that can contain up to 100 individuals. They have a distinctive appearance with a dark brown body and light-colored markings.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Dictynidae

Genus

Mallos