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Periscope Spiders
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Periscope Spiders

Plectophanes

Plectophanes is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, and was first described by Elizabeth B. Bryant in 1935. The eyes are positioned on an extension of the carapace that projects forward of the chelicerae.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Plectophanes archeyi

speciesPlectophanes archeyi

Plectophanes frontalis

speciesPlectophanes frontalis

Plectophanes pilgrimi

speciesPlectophanes pilgrimi

Plectophanes hollowayae

speciesPlectophanes hollowayae

Plectophanes altus

speciesPlectophanes altus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 377730.