Cribellum: A sievelike, transverse plate, usually divided by a delicate keel into two equal parts, located in front of the spinnerets of many spiders: the modified anterior median spinnerets.

 

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Cribellum: A sievelike, transverse plate, usually divided by a delicate keel into two equal parts, located in front of the spinnerets of many spiders: the modified anterior median spinnerets.

Hackled Band: The composite threads of the cribellate spiders, spun by cribellum and combed by the calamistrum.

Colulus: The slender or pointed appendage immediately in front of the spinnerets of some spiders: in other greatly reduced or seemingly missing: the homologue of the anterior median spinnerets or cribellum.

Calamistrum: The more -or less extensive row of curved hairs on the hind metatarsi, used to comb the silk from the cribellum.