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Gnaphosidae
| 鷲蛛科 Gnaphosidae | |||
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 Sernokorba 塞爾蛛屬 Hong Kong |
 Hitobia sp EDA EDA 2014 |
MALE 4.5MM 16-8-2009 SUNGAI TAWAU |
| Ground spiders' (family Gnaphosidae) are
reddish, brown, gray, striped, black spiders, and include nearly 2,000
described species in 110 genera, distributed worldwide. This makes the
family the seventh largest known. New species are still being discovered.
They are closely related to Clubionidae. Common genera include Gnaphosa, Drassodes, Micaria, Cesonia, Zelotes and many others Generally, ground spiders are characterized by having barrel-shaped anterior spinnerets that are one spinneret diameter apart. The main exception to this rule is found in the ant-mimicking genus Micaria. Another characteristic is an indentation in the endites (paired mouthparts anterior and lateral to the labium, or lip). All ground spiders lack a prey-capture web and generally run prey down on the surface. They hunt at night and spend the day in a silken retreat. The thick-walled egg sacs are guarded by the mother until the spiderlings hatch. Only 1 species of Ground Spider is recorded in Borneo Island. That is the Camillina aldabrae (Strand, 1907) — (Central, Southern Africa, Aldabra, Seychelles, Borneo).
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