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Argiope

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Noun1.ArgiopeArgiope - the type genus of Argiopidae; small genus of orb-weaving spiders
genus Argiope
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver - spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
Argiope aurantia, black and gold garden spider - a widely distributed North American garden spider


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Tapes of 44 Argiope aurantia males that inserted both pedipalps--their sperm-delivery structures--into their mates without getting attacked show the males' legs curling up motionless within seconds.
Killer sex, literally. (Zoology) by Science News
Are such patriotic statements as the prologue to Fusconi's Argiope (1649), in which an allegorical conflict between War and Peace is resolved with Peace hailing Venice as her natural home (the opera was performed at a critical moment in the war against the Turks), to be read as communal celebrations of Venetian identity, part of the armoury of social control, or both?
Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre by Fenlon, Iain / Renaissance Quarterly
When the researchers looked at the catching silks of the more recently derived garden spider, Argiope argentata, they found that the main portions of these webs do not reflect ultraviolet light, but that the decorations added to their webs do.
Spider webs: luring light may be a trap by Wickelgren, I. / Science News
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