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Araneophagic
Arachnophagy (/əˈræknɒfədʒi/, from Greek ἀράχνη aráchnē, 'spider', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat'), also known as araneophagy, describes a feeding behaviour that involves eating arachnids, a class of eight-legged arthropods that includes spiders and many other species groups including scorpions, ticks, and mites. Aside from arachnophagy by non-human creatures, the term can also refer to the practice of eating arachnids among humans. By non-humans Arachnophagy is widespread among many animals, especially reptiles and birds. For example, arachnophagy is described among Philippine scops owls that feed on spider species such as ''Heteropoda venatoria.'' Spiders are also eaten by many other types of animal, and spiders themselves can eat other spiders, including those of their own species, most commonly in acts of sexual cannibalism. By humans Like the human consumption of insects ( anthropo-entomophagy), arachnids as well as myriapods also have a histor ...
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Arachnid
Arachnids are arthropods in the Class (biology), class Arachnida () of the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, opiliones, harvestmen, Solifugae, camel spiders, Amblypygi, whip spiders and Uropygi, vinegaroons. Adult arachnids have eight Arthropod leg, legs attached to the cephalothorax. In some species the frontmost pair of legs has converted to a sensory function, while in others, different appendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs. Almost all Extant taxon, extant arachnids are terrestrial animal, terrestrial, living mainly on land. However, some inhabit freshwater environments and, with the exception of the pelagic zone, marine environments as well. They comprise over 110,000 named species, of which 51,000 are species of spiders. The term is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek word (''aráchnē'', 'spider'), from the myth of the hubristic human weaver Arachne, w ...
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