Social spider

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A Social spider is a spider species whose individuals form relatively long-lasting aggregations. Whereas most spiders are solitary and even aggressive toward conspecifics, some hundreds of species in several families show a tendency to live in groups, often refered to as colonies, and continue to provoke the curiosity of naturalists.

1 Spider sociality
2 Social spider families and genera ^[1]
3 Origins of sociality in spiders
4 References

[edit] Spider sociality

No social spider species has yet been seen to exibit the eusocial organization of termites, ants, highly social bees or social wasps.

[edit] Social spider families and genera ^[1]

Agelenidae
- Agelena consociata (Pain 1964; Krafft 1970, 1975; Darchen 1980; Riechert 1985; Riechert et al. 1986; Tietjen 1986; Roeloffs & Riechert 1988; Furey & Riechert 1989, 1999)
- Agelena republicana (Darchen 1967a, 1976, 1981).

Dictynidae
- Aebutina binotata (Simon 1892; Avilés 1993a, 2000; Avilés et al. 2001)
- Mallos gregalis (Diguet 1909; Burgess 1976, 1979a, b; Jackson & Smith 1978; Jackson 1979, 1980, 1982; Tietjen 1981, 1982, 1986a, b)

Eresidae
- Stegodyphus dumicola (Kraus & Kraus 1988, 1990; Seibt & Wickler 1987, 1988a, b, 1990; Kraus 1988; Wickler & Seibt 1993; Henschel et al. 1995a, b, 1996; Henschel 1998; Seibt et al. 1998; Avilés et al. 1999; Ulbrich & Henschel 1999; Whitehouse & Lubin 1999; Amir et al. 2000; Schneider et al. 2001; Crouch & Malan 2002; Johannesen et al. 2002; Lubin & Crouch 2003)
- Stegodyphus mimosarum (Ward & Enders 1985; Ward 1986; Seibt & Wickler 1987, 1988a, b, 1990; Kraus & Kraus 1988, 1990; Wickler & Seibt 1986, 1993; Crouch & Lubin 2000; Crouch & Lubin 2001; Bodasing, Slotow & Crouch 2001; Ainsworth et al. 2002; Bodasing, Crouch & Slotow 2002; Lubin & Crouch 2003)
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum (Kraus 1988; Kraus & Kraus 1988, 1990; Kullmann et al. 1972; Bradoo 1972, 1983; Jacson & Joseph 1973; Willey & Jackson 1993; Smith & Engel 1994)
- Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992 (possibly social, see Kraus & Kraus 1992)

Nesticidae

Species not identified (Quintero & Amat 1995)

Oxyopidae
- Tapinillus sp. (Aviés 1994; Avilés et al. 2001)

Sparassidae
- Delena cancerides (Rowell 1987; Hancock & Rowell 1995; Rowell & Avilés 1995)

Theridiidae
- Achaearanea disparata (Darchen 1968; Darchen & Ledoux 1978)
- Achaearanea vervortii (Levi et al. 1982; Lubin 1982, 1991)
- Achaearanea wau (Levi et al. 1982; Lubin 1982, 1991; Lubin & Robinson 1982)
- Anelosimus domingo (Levi 1963; Levi & Smith 1982; Rypstra & Tirey 1989; Avilés et al. 2001)
- Anelosimus eximius (Levi 1963; Vollrath 1982; Avilés 1992)
- Anelosimus guacamayos (Avilés et al., pers. comm.)
- Anelosimus oritoyacu (Avilés et al., pers. comm.)
- Anelosimus puravida (Agnarsson 2006a)
- Anelosimus lorenzo (Fowler & Levi 1979)
- Anelosimus rupununi (Levi 1963; Rypstra & Tirey 1989; Levi 1972)
- Theridion nigroannulatum (Avilés 1997; Avilés et al. 2001; Avilés et al. 2006)

Thomisidae
- Diaea ergandros (Evans 1996)
- Diaea megagyna (Evans 1996)
- Diaea socialis (Evans 1996; Main 1988)

[edit] Origins of sociality in spiders

[edit] References

Costa, James (2006). The Other Insect Societies. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674021630. (Good discussion of spider sociality.)