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Hersilia Audouin, 1826

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English: Hersilia is a spider genus of the Hersiliidae family. This may Hersilia savignyi. Here it is immobilizing a Cicada by wrapping around. It has lightning speed, giving the victim no chance to escape.


Being very well camouflaged for life on the varicolored trunks of trees, they have an interesting way of capturing prey. Rather than making a web that captures prey directly, they lay a light coating of threads over an area of tree bark and wait hidden in plain sight for an insect to stray onto that patch. Once that occurs, they direct their spinnerets toward their prey and circle it; all the while casting silk on it. When the hapless insect has been thoroughly immobilized, they can bite it through its new shroud.
Italiano: Un ragno della familia Hersiliidae mentre cattura un insetto della famiglia dei Cicadidi. Questa famiglia di ragni invece di tessere una tela si mimetizza sul tronco degli alberi e usa un sottile strato di fili come sistema di allarme per avvisarlo delle possibili prede.
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English: Kadavoor, Kerala, India.
Date 19 June 2016
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