What is Spitting spider?
{{Taxobox | name = Spitting spider | image = Scytodes thoracica (aka).jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Spitting spider | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Arachnid]]a | ordo = [[Spider|Araneae]] | superfamilia = '''Scytodoidea''' | familia = '''Scytodidae''' | familia_authority = [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]], 1864 | diversity_link = List of Scytodidae species | diversity = 5 genera, 169 species | range_map = Distribution.scytodidae.1.png | range_map_width = 250px | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''[[Dictis]]''<br /> ''[[Scyloxes]]''<br /> ''[[Scytodes]]'' <br /> ''[[Soeuria]]''<br /> ''[[Stedocys]]'' }} A '''spitting spider''' is a [[spider]] in the family '''''Scytodidae'''''. There are more than 150 [[species]] of spitting spider in the world. Spitting spiders are related to the [[recluse spider]]s in the ''[[Sicariidae]]'' family. The name ''spitting spider'' comes from the way these spiders hunt. The spider [[spit]]s a sticky and poisonous liquid at its [[prey]]. The liquid [[wikt:congeal|congeal]]s (becomes solid) around the target. When the prey is [[trap]]ped, the spider bites it to kill it with [[Venom (poison)|venom]]. It then wraps the prey in spider [[silk]] like many other spiders do.<ref>Gilbert, C. and L. S . Rayor. 1985. Predatory behavior of spitting spiders (Araneae, Scytodidae) and the evolution of prey wrapping. J . Arachnol., 13 :231-241</ref> A spitting spider [[attack]] is very fast. It takes about 1/700th of a second. This kind of spider can spit {{convert|10|to|20|mm|in}}. The spider spits in a Z pattern and criss-crosses its prey in sticky liquid.<ref>Piper, Ross (2007), Extraordinary Animals: An Encyclopedia of Curious and Unusual Animals, Greenwood Press.</ref> There are five [[genus|genera]] of spitting spiders: * ''[[Dictis]]'' (China to Australia) * ''[[Scyloxes]]'' (Kyrgyzstan) * ''[[Scytodes]]'' (worldwide) * ''[[Soeuria]]'' (Seychelles) * ''[[Stedocys]]'' (Malaysia, Thailand) == Sources == {{reflist}} {{wikispecies|Scytodidae