Five-spotted Star-web Spider

Uroctea durandi

"Uroctea durandi" is a Mediterranean spider of about 16mm, dark with five yellow spots on its back. It lives under rocks, where it constructs an upside-down tent-like hanging web about 4 cm in diameter.
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Behavior

From each of the six openings two signaling threads protrude; When an insect or millipede touches one of these threads, the spider lunges out of the respective opening and catches its prey.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassArachnida
OrderAraneae
FamilyOecobiidae
GenusUroctea
SpeciesU. durandi
Photographed in
France
Portugal