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A spider survey published in 1999 found P. adumbratus present in coastal sage scrub in the vicinity of San Diego. [8] A spider survey report published in 2022 found individuals in Baja California's Central Desert ecoregion in Sierra Blanca, Ensenada Municipality, Mesa Escondido and San Antonio de Las Minas on the Baja California peninsula. [5]
Titiotus californicus is a species of araneomorphic Araneae of the family Zoropsidae [1] that can be found in the state of California, after which it is aptly named. The species was first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 in his encyclopedic work Histoire Naturelle des Araignées.
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The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History.
Titiotus is a genus of American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1897. [2]Spiders in this genus are often misidentified as the brown recluse spider of the genus Loxosceles due to similarities of coloration, body proportions, leg length, and even leg positioning prior to movement. [3]
The spider seldom initiates hunting behavior to still prey, and interrupts ongoing hunting behavior when the prey ceases to move. When pursuing a prey, it at first moves rapidly, slowing down as it comes near the prey. Within 5 centimetres (2.0 in) of the prey, it presses its body close to the ground and draws the legs in toward the body.
Atypoides riversi, known as turret spider, [2] is a species of mygalomorph spider in the family Antrodiaetidae. [1] It is a medium-sized spider native to Northern California [ 3 ] [ 4 ] that constructs a burrow with a turret made of soil, vegetation and silk. [ 5 ]
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