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Mexican Social Spiders
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Mexican Social Spiders

Mallos

Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902. Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.

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16 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Mallos pallidus

speciesMallos pallidus

Mallos dugesi

speciesMallos dugesi

Mallos niveus

speciesMallos niveus

Mallos blandus

speciesMallos blandus

Mallos gregalis

speciesMallos gregalis

Mallos hesperius

speciesMallos hesperius

Mallos macrolirus

speciesMallos macrolirus

Mallos mians

speciesMallos mians

Mallos chamberlini

speciesMallos chamberlini

Mallos gertschi

speciesMallos gertschi

Mallos kraussi

speciesMallos kraussi

Mallos flavovittatus

speciesMallos flavovittatus

Mallos nigrescens

speciesMallos nigrescens

Mallos margaretae

speciesMallos margaretae

Mallos bryanti

speciesMallos bryanti

Mallos pearcei

speciesMallos pearcei

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 172550.