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Pisaurina
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Pisaurina

Pisaurina is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898. It likes to live within vegetated areas such as meadows, bushes or tall grass, preferring warm or tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

American Nursery Web Spider

speciesPisaurina mira

Pisaurina dubia

speciesPisaurina dubia

Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider

speciesPisaurina brevipes

Slender Nursery Web Spider

speciesPisaurina undulata

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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 84110.