Figure 95. A in Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)

Figure 95. A, typical 'chicken-wire' web (225-2) of Synotaxus monoceros, characteristic of this genus (Bartika, Guyana). B, S. waiwai, female guarding egg sac in a simple 'egg sac web'. (Gunn's landing, Guyana) C, S. monoceros, female guarding egg sac in an identical web (Bartika, Guyana). D, male of S. monoceros (Bartika, Guyana). E, Selkirkiella luisi (Puyehue, Chile) in an egg-guarding web typical of the genus, superficially similar to Synotaxus. Note that the dense silk mat in Selkirkiella covers the loosely woven egg sac entirely. Enoplognatha ovata is similar (e.g. Nielsen, 1932: 41)