Blacktailed red sheetweaver

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Blacktailed red sheetweaver

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Florinda
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
Species: F. coccinea
Binomial name
Florinda coccinea
(Hentz, 1850)

The blacktailed red sheetweaver, Florinda coccinea, is a species of sheetweaver spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae. This species is common to the United States. These spiders are so small that they can only be clearly seen with a powerful hand lens. The eyes of members of this family are found in a kind of "shower head" arrangement, and frequently the eyes sit on a kind of turret.

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