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Mastophora phrynosoma

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Mastophora
Species:	M. phrynosoma
Binomial name
*Mastophora phrynosoma* Gertsch, 1955

Mastophora phrynosoma is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae. It is found in the United States.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Like all known species of the genus Mastophora, adult females are bolas spiders, capturing their prey with one or more sticky drops at the end of a single line of silk rather than in a web. Males and juvenile females capture their prey directly with their legs.^[5]

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^ "Mastophora phrynosoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Mastophora phrynosoma". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Mastophora phrynosoma". NMBE World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Mastophora phrynosoma species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ Levi, H.W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 309–382.

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Taxon identifiers
Mastophora phrynosoma	Wikidata: Q4277206 BioLib: 895780 BOLD: 657698 BugGuide: 424001 CoL: 6R77N EoL: 1195615 GBIF: 5171178 iNaturalist: 474149 IRMNG: 10025205 ITIS: 860612 NCBI: 593445 Open Tree of Life: 802185 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016388

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Toadlike Bolas Spider

Mastophora phrynosoma Gertsch, 1955

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