Figure 6. Silk shelters. a, P. basalis exuvium within a in Natural history of the agave jumping spider, Paraphidippus basalis (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantina)

Figure 6. Silk shelters. a, P. basalis exuvium within a tube shelter that is oriented along the length of a sotol leaf. b, Tube shelter perpendicular to the leaves of an agave. c-d, Tube shelter under a flat sheet of silk stretched between the edges of a yucca leaf. e, The same type of silk shelter as in (c-d), occupied during daytime by a Curicaberis spider. f, Young instar of P. basalis in a mountain yucca, hanging from the end of a dragline at night.