Zilla diodia

Short description: Species of spider

Zilla diodia

Adult female of Zilla diodia in net.
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Araneidae
Genus:  | Zilla
Species:  |

Z. diodia

Binomial name
Zilla diodia

(Walckenaer, 1802)[1]

Subspecies

* Zilla diodia embrikstrandi (Kolosvary, 1938) — Italy

Zilla diodia is an orb-weaver spider species found from Europe to Azerbaijan. This species was originally described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 as Aranea diodia.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Webs
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Webs

Zilla diodia build very fine, vertical orb webs with often more than 50 radii and sticky spiral loops. The radii in the webs of this species – unlike those in most other orb webs – are double stranded at the periphery of the web and single stranded near the centre, presumably as an adaptation to the different forces acting on the inner and outer part of the radii.[3]

## See also

* List of Araneidae species

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Taxon details Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/5398, retrieved 2021-04-02
2. ↑ Walckenaer, C. A.; Fabricius, Johann Christian (1802). Faune parisienne, insectes, ou Histoire abrégée des insectes des environs de Paris : classés d'après le systême de Fabricius; précédée d'un discours sur les insectes en général, pour servir d'introduction à l'étude de l'entomologie. 2. Paris: Dentu. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109286.
3. ↑ Zschokke, Samuel (2000). "Radius construction and structure in the orb-web of Zilla diodia (Araneidae)" (in en). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 186 (10): 999-1005. doi:10.1007/s003590000155.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q203090 entry

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilla diodia. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biology:Zilla_diodia&oldid=2822252"