The filmy dome spider (''Neriene radiata'') is a sheet weaver: a

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

in the family

Linyphiidae Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal) is a family of very small spiders comprising 4706 described species in 6 ...

with a

holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

distribution. These spiders construct a dome of fine

spider silk Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders. Spiders use silk to make webs or other structures that function as adhesive traps to catch prey, to entangle and restrain prey before biting, to transmit tactile information, or as nest ...

and hang upside-down under it, waiting for their prey. It is a preferential host for the kleptoparasitic '' Argyrodes trigonum''. File:Neriene radiata.ogv, ''Neriene radiata'', mating behaviour File:Filmy dome spiders (Neriene radiata) mating.jpg, alt=filmy dome spiders (Neriene radiata) mating, Male and female filmy dome spiders (Neriene radiata) mating

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