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Ogre-face Net-casting Spider

Deinopidae

Description:

These spider weave a second web to throw on its prey. Interesting that the throwing web is more blue than the main web. Not sure if it is made of a different substance than the main web. Anyone know more about these spiders? Did not see the spider in action. Would love to see a video if anyone has a link to one.

Notes:

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinopidae) The spider family Deinopidae consists of stick-like elongate spiders that build unusual webs that they suspend between the front legs. When prey approaches, the spider will stretch the net to two or three times its relaxed size and propel itself onto the prey, entangling it in the web. Because of this, they are also called net-casting spiders. Their excellent night-vision adapted posterior median eyes allow them to cast this net over potential prey items. These eyes are so large in comparison to the other six eyes that the spider seems to have only two eyes. The genus Deinopis is the best known in this family. Spiders in this genus are also called ogre-faced spiders, due to the imagined similarity between their appearance and that of the mythological creature, the ogre.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Net casting spider
Deinopsis sp
Tom15
Tom15 10 years ago
Ogre-faced Spider
Deinopidae Ogre-faced Spider | Project Noah


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1 Comment

Tom15
Tom15 10 years ago

Nice find, these are interesting spiders! Here's another one on PN from Costa Rica with the blue web. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/802...

JohnHanson
Spotted by
JohnHanson

Costa Rica

Spotted on Oct 17, 2013
Submitted on Jan 6, 2014

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