The net-casting spider, Asianopis subrufa, is a spider native to Australia and New Zealand, found in forests, woodland and heathland as well as on the walls of buildings, and until a 2020 taxonomic revision was classified in the genus Deinopis alongside its close relatives. Females measure about 25 millimeters and males about 22 millimeters, with females colored light reddish-brown and males marked with stripes. It is a nocturnal hunter with unusually keen eyesight for a spider, and instead of a fixed web it weaves a small rectangular net that it holds between its front legs and throws over passing prey such as ants, beetles and crickets; it poses no danger to humans.
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Araneae, Taxa Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Deinopidae
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1. Deinopidae (Wikipedia)
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Deinopidae, also known as net-casting spiders, are a family of circumtropical cribellate spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.
2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Deinopidae
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"canonicalName": "Deinopidae"
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