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Taczanowskia
Taczanowskia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1879. Contrary to the common name of the family, 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.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Taczanowskia sextuberculata
speciesTaczanowskia sextuberculata
Taczanowskia gustavoi
speciesTaczanowskia gustavoi
Taczanowskia trilobata
speciesTaczanowskia trilobata
Taczanowskia waska
speciesTaczanowskia waska
Taczanowskia onowoka
speciesTaczanowskia onowoka
Taczanowskia mirabilis
speciesTaczanowskia mirabilis
Taczanowskia yasuni
speciesTaczanowskia yasuni
Taczanowskia striata
speciesTaczanowskia striata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 419009.