Scoloderus
Sign in to saveScoloderus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887. They primarily feed on nocturnal moths using a ladder-type nest, featuring vertical extensions of sticky orbs above and below the circumference of the primary orb. When a moth strikes the web, it slides down the ladder, leaving behind scales on the sticky silk until it is completely ensnared.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 27
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- USNM, ABS, NMSU, MNRJ, MPEG, TAMU
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, United States, Brasil, Belize
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Scoloderus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887. They primarily feed on nocturnal moths using a ladder-type nest, featuring vertical extensions of sticky orbs above and below the circumference of the primary orb. When a moth 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: Scoloderus ackerlyi Traw, 1996 – Belize Scoloderus cordatus (Taczanowski, 1879) (type) – Mexico to Argentina Scoloderus gibber (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico to Argentina Scoloderus nigriceps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – USA, Mexico, Bahama Is., Cuba, Jamaica Scoloderus tuberculifer (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Argentina
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