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Nilus (spider)
''Nilus'' is a genus of Pisauridae, nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876. Species it contains eighteen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and India: *''Nilus albocinctus'' (Carl Ludwig Doleschall, Doleschall, 1859) – India to Philippines *''Nilus curtus'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (Type_species, type) – Africa *''Nilus decorata'' (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India *''Nilus esimoni'' (Sierwald, 1984) – Madagascar *''Nilus jayakari'' (Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Oman *''Nilus kolosvaryi'' (Lodovico di Caporiacco, Caporiacco, 1947) – Central, East, Southern Africa *''Nilus leoninus'' (Embrik Strand, Strand, 1916) – Madagascar *''Nilus majungensis'' (Strand, 1907) – Mayotte, Madagascar *''Nilus margaritatus'' (Reginald Innes Pocock, Pocock, 1898) – Central, South Africa *''Nilus massajae'' (Pavesi, 1883) – Africa *''Nilus paralbocinctus'' (Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004) – China, Laos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisauridae
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. They resemble wolf spiders (Lycosidae) except for several key differences. Wolf spiders have two very prominent eyes in addition to the other six, while a nursery web spider's eyes are all about the same size. Additionally, female nursery web spiders carry their egg sacs with their jaws and pedipalps instead of attaching them to their spinneret (spider), spinnerets as wolf spiders do. When the eggs are about to hatch, a female spider builds a nursery "tent", places her egg sac inside, and stands guard outside, hence the family's common name. Like the wolf spiders, however, the nursery web spiders are roaming hunters that don't use webs for catching prey. Species occur throughout the world except for extremely dry or cold environments, and are common just about everywhere. Many can walk on the surface of still bodies of water and may even dive beneath the surf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |