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Nursery Web Spiders
Pisauridae
Nursery web spiders are spiders of the family Pisauridae. They resemble wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), but they carry their egg sacs by means of their jaws and pedipalps (instead of attaching them to their spinnerets). When the eggs are about to hatch, a mother spider builds a nursery "tent", puts her egg sac inside, and mounts guard outside. The name "nursery web spider" is especially given to the European species Pisaura mirabilis, but the family also...
36 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pisaurinae
subfamilyPisaurinae
Thaumasiinae
subfamilyThaumasiinae
Leaf-running Spiders
genusHygropoda
Sheetweb Spiders
genusEuprosthenopsis
Tinus
genusTinus
Crown Pisaurids
genusRothus
Funnelweb Spiders
genusEuprosthenops
Qianlingula
genusQianlingula
Polyboea
genusPolyboea
Sphedanus
genusSphedanus
Plant Pisaurids
genusCharminus
Cispius
genusCispius
Chiasmopes
genusChiasmopes
Grass Pisaurids
genusAfropisaura
Eucamptopus
genusEucamptopus
Maypacius
genusMaypacius
Inola
genusInola
Caripetella
genusCaripetella
Walrencea
genusWalrencea
Halinae
subfamilyHalinae
Tallonia
genusTallonia
Tetragonophthalma
genusTetragonophthalma
Blandinia
genusBlandinia
Archipirata
genusArchipirata
Cispinilus
genusCispinilus
Ilipula
genusIlipula
Papakula
genusPapakula
Phalaeops
genusPhalaeops
Stoliczka
genusStoliczka
Tapinothele
genusTapinothele
Tapinothelella
genusTapinothelella
Tapinothelops
genusTapinothelops
Thalassiopsis
genusThalassiopsis
Voraptipus
genusVoraptipus
Vuattouxia
genusVuattouxia
Voraptus
genusVoraptus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 55788.