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Slender Nursery Web Spider

Pisaurina undulata

557 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) lizch, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Louisiana.January 4, February 4, March 4, April 8, May 4, June 8, July 2, August 2, September 3, October 4, November 3, December 3.
United States347
Louisiana40
Mississippi36
North Carolina30
South Carolina28
Texas17
Georgia16
Alabama12
Virginia10
Arkansas5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyNursery Web Spiders · Pisauridae
GenusPisaurina

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Slender Nursery Web Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.