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Exechocentrus

Exechocentrus is a genus of Madagascan orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1889. They are bolas-using spiders, capturing their prey with one or more sticky drops at the end of a single line of silk rather than in a web.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Exechocentrus lancearius

speciesExechocentrus lancearius

Exechocentrus madilina

speciesExechocentrus madilina

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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 418958.