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Epeira Diadema
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Description: "A genus of spiders, the type of a family called Epeirdae. They are of those spiders which have only a pair of pulmonary sacs and spiracles; construct webs with regular meshes, formed by concentric circles and straight radii; and are furnished with a pair of almost contiguous eyes on each side; other four eyes forming a quadrangle in the center." — Chambers, 1881
Source: William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881)IV:85
Keywords: Epeira, Diadema, Spider, Spiders, Pulmonary Sac,
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