Family: ULOBORIDAE Thorell, 1869

hackled orbweavers

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Family Name Authority

Thorell, T. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 17: 1-727.

Diagnosis

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Characters

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Distribution

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Natural History

Feeding Guild:^† (Not recorded or unknown)

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^†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.

Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 14 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Hyptiotes Walckenaer, 1837

2	Miagrammopes O. P.-Cambridge, 1870

3	Octonoba Opell, 1979

4	Philoponella Mello-Leitao, 1917

5	Siratoba Opell, 1979

6	Uloborus Latreille, 1806

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

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