Spitting Spider

Spitting Spider - Scytodes thoracica - Speispinne
<sub>is the only member of the family Scytodae that lives in Central Europe. The Bodylength is between 4 and 6 millimeters.

They catch their prey by spitting a fluid that immobilizes it by congealing on contact into a venomous and sticky mass. They can be observed swaying from side to side, in order to cover the prey in a crisscrossed "Z" pattern; each of two pores in the chelicerae emits half of the pattern. The spider usually strikes from a distance of 10-20mm and the whole attack sequence is over in a little under 1/700th of second.[</sub>
Rem: The part "each of two pores in the chelicerae emits half of the pattern" is maybe wrong. The German Wiki-Article tells that only one emits the net and the other is for the deathly bite.

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