Editing Orb-weaver spider (section)

==References==
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<ref name=Codd86>{{cite book |first1=Jonathan A. |last1=Coddington |year=1986 |chapter=The monophyletic origin of the orb web |pages=[https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea/page/319 319–363] |editor1-first=William A. |editor1-last=Shear |title=Spiders: webs, behavior, and evolution |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford CA |isbn=978-0-8047-1203-3 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rc6Vz-cWickC&pg=PA319 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea/page/319 }}</ref>

<ref name=Elga91>{{cite journal |last1=Elgar |first1=Mark |title=Sexual Cannibalism, Size Dimorphism, and Courtship Behavior in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneidae) |journal=Evolution |date=1991 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=444–448 |jstor=2409679 |doi=10.2307/2409679|pmid=28567867 }}</ref>

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<ref name=MW_orb>{{cite web |title=orb |website=Merriam-Webster Dictionary |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orb |access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref>

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<ref name=PennOrtu06>{{cite journal |first1=David |last1=Penney |first2=Vicente M. |last2=Ortuño |year=2006 |title=Oldest true orb-weaving spider (Araneae: Araneidae) |journal=[[Biology Letters]] |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=447–450 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2006.0506 |pmid=17148427 |pmc=1686203 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>

<ref name=SchnGilbFromUhl06>{{cite journal |last1=Schneider |first1=J.M. |last2=Gilberg |first2=S. |last3=Fromhage |first3=L. |last4=Uhl |first4=G. |title=Sexual conflict over copulation duration in a cannibalistic spider |journal=Animal Behaviour |date=2006 |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=781–788 |doi=10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.012 |s2cid=53171331 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>

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<ref name=Smithsonian>{{cite journal |title=Detangling History |journal=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date=September 2006 |page=24}} "Two pieces of Spanish [[amber]] contain the oldest known spider web and orb–weaving spider; both specimens are at least 110 million years old. The new findings, along with an analysis of the proteins in spider silk, indicate that orb–weaving spiders date as far back as 144 million years."</ref>

<ref name=VollSeld07>{{cite journal |first1=Fritz |last1=Vollrath |first2=Paul |last2=Selden |year=2007 |title=The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs |journal=[[Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics]] |volume=38 |pages=819–846 |doi=10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110221 |s2cid=54518303 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>

<ref name=WelkSchn10>{{cite journal |last1=Welke |first1=K.W. |last2=Schneider |first2=J.M. |title=Males of the orb-web spider ''Argiope bruennichi'' sacrifice themselves to unrelated females |journal=Biol. Lett. |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=585–588 |year=2010 |pmid=20410027 |pmc=2936157 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2010.0214 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>

<ref name=WSC_stats>{{cite web |title=Currently valid spider genera and species |website=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum, Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/statistics/ |access-date=16 August 2017}}</ref>
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