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title: "Indian Cooperative Spider"
description: "Stegodyphus sarasinorum — Insetti e ragni. Stegodyphus sarasinorum, also known as the Indian cooperative spider, is a species of velvet spider of the family Eresidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/indian-cooperative-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Indian Cooperative Spider

> Stegodyphus sarasinorum — Insetti e ragni. Stegodyphus sarasinorum, also known as the Indian cooperative spider, is a species of velvet spider of the family Eresidae.

- Scientific name: *Stegodyphus sarasinorum*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 757
- Wikidata: [Q2193255](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2193255)
- iNaturalist taxon: [415114](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/415114)

## Names

- en: Indian Cooperative Spider

## Countries with the most observations

IN (546), LK (5)

## Summary

Stegodyphus sarasinorum, also known as the Indian cooperative spider, is a species of velvet spider of the family Eresidae. It is native to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar. This spider is a social spider that exhibits communal predation and feeding, where individuals live in large cooperatively built colonies with a nest or retreat constructed of silk woven using leaves, twigs, and food carcasses, and a sheet web for prey capture.
Individual S. sarasinorum spiders that have attacked prey once are more likely to attack prey again, independent of their body size or hunger level. Stegodyphus is the only genus of…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegodyphus_sarasinorum

## Photo

![Indian Cooperative Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/indian-cooperative-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jaya Rakesh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137852911

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/indian-cooperative-spider?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).