Eresus kollari

Eresus kollari, the ladybird spider,[2] is a spider species in the family Eresidae.[1]

Eresus kollari
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Eresidae
Genus: Eresus
Species:
E. kollari
Binomial name
Eresus kollari
Rossi, 1846[1]

It is one of the three species into which Eresus cinnaberinus or Eresus niger has been divided.[3]

Eresus kollari keep the remains of their prey stacked in the web. The females use the same burrow throughout their whole life. The prey can be large like tenebrionoid beetles, up to 32.5 mm long.[4]

References

  1. "Taxon Details: Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-10-05
  2. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id455/
  3. Řezáč, M.; Pekár, S. & Johannesen, J. (2008), "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of central European Eresus species (Araneae: Eresidae)", Zoologica Scripta, 37: 263–287, doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00328.x
  4. Zarco, L.P. & Pinero, F.S. (2016), "Diet of the ladybird spider Eresus kollari (Araneae: Eresidae) in an arid system of southeastern Spain", The Journal of Arachnology, 44 (2): 359–366, doi:10.1636/P15-74.1


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