Stegodyphus mimosarum
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African social velvet spider | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Eresidae |
Genus: | Stegodyphus |
Species: | S. mimosarum
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Binomial name | |
Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883
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Stegodyphus mimosarum, the African social velvet spider, is a species of the genus Stegodyphus, one of the velvet spiders. It is a social species, which is found in South Africa and Madagascar.[1] The genome sequence was published in 2014.[2] Similar to closely related species such as Stegodyphus sarasinorum, S. mimosarum engages in communal living which involves remaining with the same colony even when prey availability is low, moving away in order to expand the nest not due to lack of food.
References
- ^ Jes Johannesen, Yael Lubin, Deborah R. Smith, Trine Bilde, Jutta M. Schneider (2007), "The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective", Proc Biol Sci, 274 (1607): 231–37, doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3699, PMC 1685853, PMID 17148252
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: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) - ^ Kristian W. Sanggaard et al. (2014), "Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk", Nature Communications, 5: 3765, Bibcode:2014NatCo...5.3765S, doi:10.1038/ncomms4765, PMC 4273655, PMID 24801114, 3765
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External links
- World Spider Catalog: Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883Error: "Q2686816" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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