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sheet, which however, is smaller than that spun by the genus Hippasa
(family Lycosidae).
This species does not sting the prey to death, but feeds on the captive
alive, all members of the colony sharing the same victim. Spiderlings
hatch in the month of October and November and feed on their parents,
hibernating in webtubes in winter. Two other species Stegodyphus
pacificus and Stegodyphus mirandus also occur in the State but are not so
widely distributed as sarasinorum.
Species of the family Scytodidae have the cephalothorax usually very
high behind. Eyes six in number. Labium fused with sternum. Legs very
long and slender. Two genera occur. In the genus Scytodes, the
cephalothorax is high and subglobose behind and slopes forward. Eyes six,
small and light coloured, arranged in three widely separated pairs. Of the
two species in Maharashtra, Scytodes propinqua and Scytodes thoracica,
the latter has a wide distribution in the old and new worlds.
Spiders of the genus Loxoceles are medium sized, yellowish or brownish
in colour and without conspicuous markings. The cephalothorax is low
and depressed. The anterior row of eyes is strongly recurved. The palpus
of the male is rather simple. A single species Loxosoceles indrabeles
newly described from Poona in 1963.
The backled-band spiders of the family Dictynidae are small oribellate
spiders of the suborder Araneamorphae with one pair of book lungs and a
single transverse tracheal spiracle immediately in front of the Spiders
spinners. In the single genus Dictyna in Maharashtra, the sternum extends
between the hind coxae ; the clypeus is much wider than the diameter of
the anterior eyes ; and the endites are moderately long and convergent.
The most familier of the hackied-band weavers belong to this genus,
which is a very large one. Six species are known from Maharashtra.
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