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posterior pair. Each of the latter consists of a single segment, the others of
two or three segments.
Males are almost invariably smaller, sometimes very much smaller, ilian
females, and may be always recognized by the modification of the tarsus
of the palp to act as an intromittent organ. This organ appears only at
maturity. Similarly in the females the genital aperture is opened and the
vulva fully formed only at the last moult, when maturity is reached. AS
spiders are oviparous. The eggs are enveloped in a silky cocoon, and are
disposed of in various ways by the mother.
Spiders are cosmopolitan in distribution and occur as far lionh as
Greenland and Spitzbergen. List of Species in Maharashtra
Family I—Eresidae
1.Stegudyphus mirandusPocock
2.S. sarasinorumRarsch
3.S. pacific as Pocock
4.S. social isPocock
Family II—Scytodidae
5.Scytodes propinquaStoliczka
6.S. thoracica (Latreille)
7 .Lo.xosceles indrabelesTikader
family III—Ditynidae
8.Dictvna rebaiIikader
9.D. shiprai Tikader
10.D. umai I ikader
11.D. bedeshaiTikader
12.D. JungabhadraiTikader
13.D. chandraiTikader
family IV —Oecobi idac
14.Oecobius putus Cambridge
15.O. marathaus Tikader
Family V—Filistatidae
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