Nemoscolus tubicola
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| Tube Stone-Nest Spider | |
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| Female with tube | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Nemoscolus |
| Species: | N. tubicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Nemoscolus tubicola | |
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Nemoscolus tubicola is a species of spider in the family Araneidae.[2] It is commonly known as the tube stone-nest spider.[3]
Nemoscolus tubicola is a southern African endemic originally described from Grahamstown.[3] The species occurs in Namibia, Eswatini and South Africa.[3]
In South Africa, it is found in seven provinces, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Northern Cape, North West, and Western Cape. It has a wide geographical range, occurring at altitudes ranging from 54 to 1,513 m above sea level.[3]
Habitat and ecology
Nemoscolus tubicola is an orb-web spider that makes a stone nest in the centre of the orb-web in grass.[3] The species is found in the Fynbos, Grassland, Nama Karoo, Savanna, Succulent Karoo and Thicket biomes.[3]
Description
female
female
closeup of tube
