Spider-hunting-spider

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• Mimetus hesperus

  pirate spider

  Mimetus hesperus is a species of pirate spider in the family Mimetidae, described by Chamberlin in 1923. It is found in the United States. Pirate spiders are specialized araneophagic predators that infiltrate the webs of other spiders to hunt them.

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