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See following link:
http://www.australasian-arachnology.org/arachnologists/
Spider terms – (from Australian Museum Online)
Abdomen - the second body section
Advanced - retaining fewer ancestral characteristics
Anterior - towards the front
Araneomorphs - 'modern' spiders
Basal - retaining 'primitive' features not present in more 'advanced' families
Calamistrum - a row of toothed bristles on the metatarsal segment of the last leg, used to comb out cribellate silk
Cephalothorax - the first body section - head and thorax fused together
Cribellate silk - see cribellum
Cribellum - a flat spinning plate covered with thousands of tiny
spigots. Together, these spigots produce a multi-stranded, 'wool-like'
cribellate silk
Dragline silk - provides the spider's safety line and is also used to make the frame and radial lines of the orb web.
Mantispid lacewings - insects of the Family Mantispidae - lacewings that look like preying mantises
Mygalomorphs - trapdoor spiders and their relatives - 'primitive' spiders
Pedicel - slim waist between cephalothorax and abdomen
Posterior - towards the back
Primitive - retaining many ancestral characteristics
Rugose - having many wrinkles or ridges
Spigots - hollow, hair-like silk outlets on the spinnerets
Spinnerets - silk spinning organs
Another glossary can be found at:
http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/ info/glossary.htm
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this website are accurate. Unfortunately, much remains to be clarified
about Australian spiders. For this reason, neither the author, The
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