Celaenia calotoides (Bird-dropping spider)

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Family Araneidae.

Although classified in the orb-weaver family Araneidae, these spiders do not construct webs to capture prey. Instead, at night they produce a chemical that mimics the sex pheromone emitted by certain female moths, thereby attracting male moths which they then ambush in the manner of crab spiders of the Thomisidae.