Miagrammopes

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Palaeogene|present}}

| taxon = Miagrammopes

| image = Miagrammopes_extensus_in_Chinnar_Wildlife_Sanctuary_by_C_K_Adarsh.jpg

| image_caption = M. extensus

| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870

| type_species = M. thwaitesi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 71, see text

| synonyms =

  • Huanacauria
  • Miagrammopsidis
  • Mumaia
  • Ranguma

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Miagrammopes is a genus of cribellate orb weavers first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1870.{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1870| title=Descriptions and sketches of two new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus.| journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology| pages=398–405| volume=10| issue=47| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00669.x}} These spiders have a unique shape and only four of their original eight eyes. They spin a single line of web, actively watching and jerking the line to catch their prey.{{cite web| publisher=Spiders of Australia| accessdate=2019-04-14| title=Hackled-orb web, triangle-web, single-line web spiders: Family Uloboridae| url=https://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/uloboridae/uloboridae.html}}

Species

{{as of|2022|10}} it contains 71 species:{{cite web| title=Gen. Miagrammopes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-04-14| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3801}}

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