Uloborus plumipes is an Old World

Old World

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 cribellate

Cribellum

The cribellum is a silk spinning organ found in certain spiders. Unlike normal spinnerets, the cribellum consists of one or more plates covered in thousands of tiny spigots. These spigots produce extremely fine fibers which are combed out by the spider's calamistrum, producing silk with a wooly...

 spider in the family Uloboridae. Common names are Feather-legged lace weaver and Garden center spider, due to its frequent occurrence in garden centers around the world.

Females grow up to 6mm. A stabilimentum is sometimes present. Pattern and coloration is quite variable. In contrast to U. walckenaerius

Uloborus walckenaerius

Uloborus walckenaerius is a spider in the family Uloboridae.Females grow up to 6 mm, males up to 4 mm. It has a dark grey prosoma, covered with white hairs, leaving some dark bands uncovered. The spider lives in warm, open terrain, like heathland, and weaves horizontal cribellate webs...

, it has distinct tufts of hairs on the front legs. They hang upside down in their horizontal webs. Young spiders look like dead insects and are thus hard to find in a web.

The empty egg sac can often be seen attached to house plants. It is flattish, papery and brown and about 0.5 cm long, with the shape of a dried holly

Holly

Ilex) is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones world wide....

 leaf.

Name

The species name is derived from Latin

Latin

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pluma "feather" and pes "foot".

External links

• Nick's Spiders: Uloborus plumipes (Pictures of spider and egg sacs)