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Stegodyphus dumicola, commonly known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Ericidae, or the velvet spider family.
It is native to central and southern Africa.
This spider is one of three Stegodyphus spiders that lives a social lifestyle S. lineatus, S. mimosarum, and S. dumicola.
This spider has been studied living in large natal colonies, ranging from tens to hundreds of highly related spiders in large, unkempt webs.
Each colony is composed mainly of females, where a minority 40% act as reproducers, and a majority 60% remain childless and take care of the young.
Males live a shorter lifespan, during which they will largely remain in the natal nest.
Females are known for extreme allomaternal care, since all females, even unmated virgin ones, will take care of the young until they are eventually consumed by the brood.
Stegodyphus spiders have a tough carapace with white hairs along the body.
Males
Stegodyphus spiders have dark borders and narrow white bands along the abdomen, while females have dark longitudinal bands along the abdomen.
Spiders of this genus vary from total length, typically between 0.3 and 3.5 mm.
Like other velvet spiders, the anterior region of the prosoma is raised and convex, sloping to the posterior.
This is more prominent in adult males compared to females, and is present once the spider has matured past early instars.
Population founding is the responsibility of females.
It is when groups of related or unrelated female individuals disperse upon maturation to create a new nest.
When the spiderlings are second stage instars, females will capture prey and regurgitate a nourishing fluid.
This phenomenon has been further classified as gerontophagy, because the brood will feed on old females, regardless of whether or not the female was related to the kin.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes, the Kulisidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.
Weaver ants, or green ants, are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family, formosidae belonging to the tribe Orchophyllinae.
Weaver ants live in trees, they are obligately arboreal, and are known for their unique nest-building behavior, where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk.
Bacilla alba is an edible perennial vine in the family Bacillaceae.
It is found in tropical Asia and Africa, where it is widely used as a leaf vegetable.
