Communal-living

Guides

• Mallos

  Mexican Social Spiders

  Mallos is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902. The genus is notable for including social spider species, particularly *Mallos gregalis*, which lives in groups and communicates through web vibrations. These spiders produce cribellate silk, a type of woolly, non-sticky silk used in prey capture. The genus has been the subject of systematic research, including studies on their spinning apparatus evolution.

  spiderarachnidsocial-spidercribellate-silkDictynidaeMexicoweb-vibrationcommunal-livingtaxonomysystematicsO.-Pickard-Cambridge