(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)
The female spider lays 8-60 eggs in each purse-like egg sac. Five or six egg sacs are clustered and woven together to form a continuous semi-circular silken structure that lines the inside edge of the shell.
Photograph © Simon van Noort
Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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