High macro view of a comb-footed spider, showing simple eye detail, front view
The tangle-web spiders (Theridiidae), also known as cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, are a large family (over 2200 species in over 100 genera) of three-dimensional space-web-builders found throughout the world. Theridiid spiders are entelegyne (have a genital plate in the female) araneomorph ecribellate (use sticky capture silk instead of woolly silk) spiders that often build tangle space webs and have a comb of serrated bristles (setae) on the tarsus of the fourth leg.
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