Ariadna bicolor

Ariadna bicolor
Male Ariadna bicolor from Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC
Female Ariadna bicolor from Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton, Maryland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Segestriidae
Genus: Ariadna
Species:
A. bicolor
Binomial name
Ariadna bicolor
(Hentz, 1842)

Ariadna bicolor is a tube-dwelling spider. Found in North America,[1] the spider's cephalothorax and legs are yellowish-brown and its abdomen is purplish-brown.

John Henry Comstock said that the habitats of the species are remarkable. He brought the spiders from Ithaca and made them a home that had blocks nailed together that each had a hole. The spiders used the man-made habitat as a nest.[2]

In a test about what species of spider replied the fastest to odors, Ariadna bicolor responded slowly. When they weren't in their tubes, they responded in 63 seconds to five oils. When they were in their tubes, they didn't respond to the odors at all.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Ariadna bicolor". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ Henry Comstock, John (1912). The spider book: a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico. Doubleday. pp. 721. Ariadna bicolor.
  3. ^ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 63. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1912.


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