Wagneriana tauricornis

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Wagneriana tauricornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/5371

An anatomical approximation of a female of the species Wagneriana tauricornis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889). distributed from the U.S. to Peru. In this model, I emphasized the complex topology of the female’s abdomen and epigynum.

The genus Wagneriana was revisited in 1991 by Dr. Herber Levi. In his paper, Dr. Levi comments on a communication with W. Eberhard, and provides the following information about the life history of the species:

” W. tauricornis take their web down when not in use (usually but not always in the daytime) and then sit at exposed sites like the tipos of thin branches with their legs pressed to their bodies. Their irregular outlines make them hard to recognize as a spider. When they have an orb they generally hang in the hub or sit facing away with a line to the hub held by leg IV (the closest to the abdomen)”

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