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Barronopsis texana
Barronopsis texana
Arachnida
RARE

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Insectivore
Activity
Nocturnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
North America
Movement
Running
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Rare

About

This funnel weaver spider builds flat, sheet-like webs across Texas grasslands. It waits at the base of a silk tunnel and sprints at speeds reaching 0.5 meters per second.

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
Agelenidae
Genus
Barronopsis
Species
Barronopsis texana