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Latticed Sheet-web Weaver

Neriene clathrata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) emilvus, some rights reserved (CC BY)

27 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 288, February 213, March 333, April 525, May 756, June 825, July 883, August 759, September 557, October 416, November 227, December 178.
United States6,253
Alaska5,960
Canada265
Russia234
Ontario109
Moscow Oblast78
United Kingdom75
Ohio70
England70
France53

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
FamilySheetweb and Dwarf Weavers · Linyphiidae
GenusNeriene

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Latticed Sheet-web Weaver with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.