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Giant Cellar Spider

Artema atlanta

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 3, February 7, March 6, April 5, May 9, June 7, July 2, August 2, September 1, October 5, November 3, December 5.
United States59
South Africa55
Arizona47
Brazil36
Limpopo36
India34
Australia27
Mexico25
West Bengal20
Queensland17

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
FamilyCellar Spiders · Pholcidae
GenusGiant Cellar Spiders · Artema

Sources

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