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Kapogea

Kapogea funnel-building spiders

kapogea.sp2

Kapogea sexnotata. Two toned, with dark red cephalothorax and pale abdomen. Legs are orange, and slightly banded with red. There is a reddish tint to the abdomen, and the spider has large palps with spurs on the ends. 

2018.JAS.E.124, 2018.JAS.W3.34

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Location: Jatun Sacha Biological Station, Ecuador (400 m.a.s.l.)

Refugium
Sheet tangle web

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2018.JAS.W3.34

kapogea.sp3

Mostly brown, with cream border on cephalothorax. Legs are solid-coloured, with two bumps on top of a triangular light brown abdomen.

2019.YSN.W4.26

Morphospecies ID: A. Haberkern; Taxonomic ID: A. Brescovit

Location: Estación Biológica Yasuní, Ecuador (250 m.a.s.l.)

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Sheet tangle web

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