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Bifurcate Trashline Orbweaver

Allocyclosa bifurca

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 39, February 38, March 43, April 81, May 56, June 38, July 31, August 24, September 27, October 39, November 52, December 42.
United States710
Texas445
Mexico90
Costa Rica26
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave22
Quintana Roo21
Provincia San José13
Tamaulipas11
Provincia Puntarenas10
Morelos7

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
FamilyOrbweavers · Araneidae
GenusAllocyclosa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Bifurcate Trashline Orbweaver with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.