''Nilus albocinctus'',
synonym
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''Thalassius albocinctus'', commonly called the fishing spider, is a species of spider found in tropical
Asia from India to the Philippines.
[ It is named after its habit of catching small fish. The spider is striking in appearance and can be easily recognised by the presence of a black, glossy, broad median band bordered by a white lateral band on the ]cephalothorax
The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...
and abdomen. The legs are long and yellowish brown. It is usually found near water.
Female pisaurids create their egg case in one piece and carry it under their body with their chelicerae. This differs from similar looking female lycosids which construct their egg case in two pieces and fasten it behind them with their spinnerets.[Sherriffs 1938]
Footnotes
References
* SHERRIFFS, W. RAE, (1938) HONG KONG SPIDERS. PART IV The Hong Kong Naturalis
Hong Kong Spiders
* Sunil Jose K., Sebastian, Samson Davis A. and P. Verghese (2003). First record of ''Thalassius albocinctus'' (Doleschall) (Araneae : Pisauridae) from India. ''Entomon'' 28(4): 309-314.
* (2008)
version 8.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
External links
South Indian Spiders
Pisauridae
Spiders of Asia
Spiders described in 1859
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