''Taczanowskia'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugen von Keyserling Eugen von Keyserling (22 March 1833 in Pockroy, Lithuania – 4 April 1889 in Dzierżoniów, Silesia) was a Baltic-German arachnologist.
He studied in the University of Tartu.
He was the author of ''Die Spinnen Amerikas'', and completed ''Die Ara ...
in 1879.
Contrary to the common name of the group, spiders of the genus Taczanowskia do not build webs and are furtive hunters, deceiving their prey by producing sex pheromones that attract male moths, and catching their prey by using a pair of enlarged claws at the tip of their anterior legs.
Species
it contains six species from South America and Mexico:
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Taczanowskia gustavoi
''Taczanowskia'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1879. Contrary to the common name of the group, spiders of the genus Taczanowskia do not build webs and are furtive hunters, deceiving their p ...
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Ibarra-Núñez, 2013 – Mexico
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Taczanowskia mirabilis''
Simon, 1897 – Bolivia, Brazil
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Taczanowskia onowoka''
Jordán, Domínguez-Trujillo, & Cisneros-Heredia, 2021 – Ecuador
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Taczanowskia sextuberculata''
Keyserling, 1892 – Colombia, Brazil
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Taczanowskia striata
''Taczanowskia'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1879. Contrary to the common name of the group, spiders of the genus Taczanowskia do not build webs and are furtive hunters, deceiving their prey by pro ...
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Keyserling, 1879 (
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) – Peru, Brazil, Argentina
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Taczanowskia trilobata''
Simon, 1897 – Brazil
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Mexico
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling
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