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Nephila komaci is a species of golden orb-web spider. It is the largest web-spinning spider known. [2] A few specimens have been found in South Africa and Madagascar.
Nephila spiders vary from reddish to greenish yellow in color with distinctive whiteness on the cephalothorax and the beginning of the abdomen. Like many species of the superfamily Araneoidea, most of them have striped legs specialized for weaving (where their tips point inward, rather than outward as is the case with many wandering spiders).
Araneid species either mate at the central hub of the web, where the male slowly traverses the web, trying not to get eaten, and when reaching the hub, mounts the female; or the male constructs a mating thread inside or outside the web to attract the female via vibratory courtship, and if successful, mating occurs on the thread.
Anisembiidae is a family of insects in the order Embioptera, the web-spinners. The family is divided into several subfamilies. [1] It is the largest family of webspinners. [2] Its subfamilies include the following: Anisembiinae; Aporembiinae; Chelicercinae; Chorisembiinae; Cryptembiinae; Platyembiinae; Scolembiinae; Its genera include the ...
It is the second largest of the orb-weaving spiders apart from the recently discovered Nephila komaci. The first, second, and fourth pairs of legs of juvenile females have dense hairy brushes, but these brushes disappear as the spider matures. The N. pilipes golden web is vertical with a fine irregular
Maternal care starts with the placement of the eggs. Some species attach batches of eggs to the web structure with silk; others form the eggs into rows in grooves excavated in the bark; others fix them in rows with a cement formed from saliva, while many species bury them in a mass of silk, even incorporating other materials into the covering. [8]
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Only females of this species have been found, and the insects reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis, earning the nickname "Ace webspinners".Perhaps because of their close inter-relatedness, these insects are notably gregarious, crowding together in their silken tunnels.