''Scoloderus'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
in 1887.
They primarily feed on
nocturnal
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Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed sens ...
moth
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s using a ladder-type nest, featuring vertical extensions of sticky orbs above and below the circumference of the primary orb. When a
moth
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strikes the web, it slides down the ladder, leaving behind scales on the sticky silk until it is completely ensnared.
Species
it contains five species:
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Scoloderus ackerlyi''
Traw, 1996 – Belize
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Scoloderus cordatus''
(Taczanowski, 1879) (
type
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) – Mexico to Argentina
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Scoloderus gibber''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
, 1898) – Mexico to Argentina
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Scoloderus nigriceps''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – USA, Mexico, Bahama Is., Cuba, Jamaica
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Scoloderus tuberculifer''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Argentina
References
External links
Scoloderusat
BugGuide
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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