Eresus kollari
| Eresus kollari | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Eresidae |
| Genus: | Eresus |
| Species: | E. kollari
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| Binomial name | |
| Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846[1]
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Eresus kollari, the ladybird spider,[2] is a spider species in the family Eresidae.[1]
It is one of the three species into which Eresus cinnaberinus or Eresus niger has been divided.[3]
Eresus kollari keep the remains of their prey stacked in the web. The females use the same burrow throughout their whole life. The prey can be large like tenebrionoid beetles, up to 32.5 mm long.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Taxon Details: Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-10-05
- ^ https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id455/
- ^ Řezáč, M.; Pekár, S. & Johannesen, J. (2008), "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of central European Eresus species (Araneae: Eresidae)", Zoologica Scripta, 37: 263–287, doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00328.x
- ^ Zarco, L.P. & Pinero, F.S. (2016), "Diet of the ladybird spider Eresus kollari (Araneae: Eresidae) in an arid system of southeastern Spain", The Journal of Arachnology, 44 (2): 359–366, doi:10.1636/P15-74.1
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