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Genus Stegodyphus

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4 species

The social velvet spiders, and one of the few genuinely communal spiders on earth: colonies of hundreds share a single silk fortress, hunt cooperatively, and raise young collectively, with mothers ultimately feeding themselves to the brood. Nothing else in the catalogue does anything like it.

A colony is the product. The keeping is a silk city in a well-ventilated enclosure: dry, structured, anchored, and fed as a group, with the web growing into architecture over months. Individual spiders are small and short-lived; the colony persists and is the animal you are actually keeping.

Venom is unremarkable. Supply is thin and irregular, since colonies ship poorly and few breeders work with them, so availability arrives in rare pulses and prices form on scarcity of functioning groups rather than of spiders. When a colony listing appears, it rarely lasts long.

Species
4
Live Listings
1
Family Market Index
$52
median market price
Entry Price
$45
Stegodyphus dufouri
Rare
Pink Velvet Spider
0 live listings · from $45 mkt $46
Stegodyphus lineatus
Common
Desert Velvet Spider
1 live listing · from $45 mkt $49
Stegodyphus sp. 'Xijiang'
Mythic
White Desert Velvet Spider
0 live listings · from $55 mkt $55
Stegodyphus tibialis
Mythic
Asian Gold Velvet Spider
0 live listings · from $150 mkt $150