Kaira (spider)
id:
kaira-spider-176-205919
title:
Kaira (spider)
text:
Kaira, sometimes called frilled orbweavers, is a mostly neotropical genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889. It includes sixteen described species that occur from South America up to the southern and eastern USA. It is presumably related to Aculepeira, Amazonepeira and Metepeira. They spin small webs from which they hang upside down and attract male moths that fly into a basket formed by their legs. They use a moth pheromone for this, which resembles the one u
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of spiders
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaira_(spider)
date created:
2007-09-16T18:52:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:29:44Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Kaira_sur_toile.jpg","width":565,"height":450}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16