Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2] Among the genus, Mallos gregalis is known to be a social spider species, living in groups and signaling each other by vibrating their web.[3]
Mallos | |
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Mallos pallidus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Dictynidae |
Genus: | Mallos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
Type species | |
M. niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902
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Species | |
16, see text |
As of May 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]