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Leucauge argyra
Leucauge argyra
Arachnida
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Insectivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Tropical rainforest
Range
Americas
Movement
Climbing
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Venom
Status
Uncommon

About

This orb-weaver spider lives in shared colonial webs across the Americas. It builds individual traps within a massive scaffolding maintained by the entire group.

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
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Leucauge
Species
Leucauge argyra