Stezicoon

big spider people, they are like centaurs with spider body and a human torso. they are venomous and can make webs.

Basic Information

Anatomy

big spider people, they are like centaurs with spider body and a human torso. they are venomous and can make webs

Biological Traits

about 7 feet tall and 2100 pounds on average.

Genetics and Reproduction

they lay eggs Spiders reproduce sexually and fertilization is internal but indirect, in other words, the sperm is not inserted into the female's body by the male's genitals but by an intermediate stage. Unlike many land-living arthropods, male spiders do not produce ready-made packages of sperm but spin small sperm webs on to which they ejaculate and then transfer the sperm to special syringe-like structures borne on the tips of the pedipalps of mature males. When a male detects signs of a female nearby he checks whether she is of the same species and whether she is ready to mate; for example in species that produce webs or "safety ropes", the male can identify the species and sex of these objects by "smell".
spider fertilization systems
Schematic diagrams showing sperm entering and being stored in the spermathecae; eggs leaving the ovaries and being fertilized; and finally a fertilized egg leaving the female's body Female spiders' reproductive tracts are arranged in one of two ways. The ancestral arrangement consists of a single genital opening, leading to two seminal receptacles in which females store sperm. In the more advanced arrangement, there are two further openings leading directly to the spermathecae, creating a "flow-through" system rather than a "first-in-first-out" one. Eggs are as a general rule only fertilized during oviposition when the stored sperm is released from its chamber, rather than in the ovarian cavity.
In the meantime, the female feeds on the palpless male. In over 60% of cases, the female of the Australian redback spider kills and eats the male after it inserts its second palp into the female's genital opening; in fact, the males co-operate by trying to impale themselves on the females' fangs. Observation shows that most male redbacks never get an opportunity to mate, and the "lucky" ones increase the likely number of offspring by ensuring that the females are well-fed. However, males of most species survive a few matings, limited mainly by their short life spans. Some even live for a while in their mates' webs.
The tiny male of the Golden orb weaver is protected from the female by producing the right vibrations in the web and maybe too small to be worth eating.
Females lay up to 3,000 eggs in one or more silk egg sacs, which maintain a fairly constant humidity level. In some species, the females die afterwards, but females of other species protect the sacs by attaching them to their webs, hiding them in nests, carrying them in the chelicerae or attaching them to the spinnerets and dragging them along.
Baby spiders pass all their larval stages inside the egg and hatch as spiderlings, very small and sexually immature but similar in shape to adults. Some spiders care for their young, for example, a wolf spider's brood clings to rough bristles on the mother's back, and females of some species respond to the "begging" behaviour of their young by giving them their prey, provided it is no longer struggling, or even regurgitate food.
Like other arthropods, spiders have to moult to grow as their ("skin") cannot stretch. In some species, males mate with newly moulted females, which are too weak to be dangerous to the males. Most spiders live for only one to two years, although some tarantulas can live in captivity for over 20 years, and an Australian female trapdoor spider was documented to have lived in the wild for 43 years, dying of a parasitic wasp attack.

Growth Rate & Stages

Baby spiders pass all their larval stages inside the egg and hatch as spiderlings, very small and sexually immature but similar in shape to adults. Some spiders care for their young, for example, a wolf spider's brood clings to rough bristles on the mother's back, and females of some species respond to the "begging" behaviour of their young by giving them their prey, provided it is no longer struggling, or even regurgitate food.

Ecology and Habitats

Capturing prey
The spider's web serves both as a trap and as a way of making its home in a leaf. The best-known method of prey capture is by means of sticky webs. Varying placement of webs allows different species of spider to trap different insects in the same area, for example, flat horizontal webs trap insects that fly up from vegetation underneath while flat vertical webs trap insects in horizontal flight. Web-building spiders have poor vision but are extremely sensitive to vibrations.
Females of the water spider Argyroneta Aquatica build underwater "diving bell" webs that they fill with air and use for digesting prey, moulting, mating and raising offspring. They live almost entirely within the bells, darting out to catch prey animals that touch the bell or the threads that anchor it. A few spiders use the surfaces of lakes and ponds as "webs", detecting trapped insects by the vibrations that these cause while struggling.
Net-casting spiders weave only small webs, but then manipulate them to trap prey. stretch their webs and then release them when prey strike them, but do not actively move their webs. Those of the family Deinopidae weave even smaller webs, hold them outstretched between their first two pairs of legs, and lunge and push the webs as much as twice their own body length to trap prey, and this move may increase the webs' area by a factor of up to ten. Experiments have shown that has two different techniques for trapping prey: backwards strikes to catch flying insects, whose vibrations it detects; and forward strikes to catch ground-walking prey that it sees.
Mature female bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora build "webs" that consist of only a single "trapeze line", which they patrol. They also construct a bolas made of a single thread, tipped with a large ball of very wet sticky silk. They emit chemicals that resemble the pheromones of moths and then swing the bolas at the moths. Although they miss on about 50% of strikes, they catch about the same weight of insects per night as web-weaving spiders of similar size. The spiders eat the bolas if they have not made a kill in about 30 minutes, rest for a while, and then make new bolas. Juveniles and adult males are much smaller and do not make bolas. Instead, they release different pheromones that attract moth flies and catch them with their front pairs of legs.

A trapdoor spider in the genus Cyclocosmia, an ambush predator The primitive Liphistiidae, the "trapdoor spiders" of the family Ctenizidae and many tarantulas are ambush predators that lurk in burrows, often closed by trapdoors and often surrounded by networks of silk threads that alert these spiders to the presence of prey. Other ambush predators do without such aids, including many crab spiders, and a few species that prey on bees, which see ultraviolet, can adjust their ultraviolet reflectance to match the flowers in which they are lurking. Wolf spiders, jumping spiders, fishing spiders and some crab spiders capture prey by chasing it, and rely mainly on vision to locate prey.

Portia uses both webs and cunning, versatile tactics to overcome prey. Some jumping spiders of the genus Portia hunt other spiders in ways that seem intelligent, outflanking their victims or luring them from their webs. Laboratory studies show that Portia's instinctive tactics are only starting points for a trial-and-error approach from which these spiders learn very quickly how to overcome new prey species.
Defence
There is strong evidence that spiders' colouration is the camouflage that helps them to evade their major predators. Many spider species are colored so as to merge with their most common backgrounds, and some have disruptive coloration, stripes and blotches that break up their outlines. In a few species, such as the Hawaiian happy-face spider, Theridion grallator, several colouration schemes are present in a ratio that appears to remain constant, and this may make it more difficult for predators to recognize the species. Most spiders are insufficiently dangerous or unpleasant-tasting for warning colouration to offer many benefits. However, a few species with powerful venoms, large jaws or irritant hairs have patches of warning colours, and some actively display these colours when threatened.
Many of the family Theraphosidae, which includes tarantulas and baboon spiders, have urticating hairs on their abdomens and use their legs to flick them at attackers. These hairs are fine setae (bristles) with fragile bases and a row of barbs on the tip. The barbs cause intense irritation but there is no evidence that they carry any kind of venom. A few defend themselves against wasps by including networks of very robust threads in their webs, giving the spider time to flee while the wasps are struggling with the obstacles. The golden wheeling spider, Carparachne aureoflava, of the Namibian desert escapes parasitic wasps by flipping onto its side and cartwheeling down sand dunes.
Socialization A few spider species that build webs live together in large colonies and show social behaviour, although not as complex as in social insects. Anelosimus eximius (in the family Theridiidae) can form colonies of up to 50,000 individuals.[57] The genus Anelosimus has a strong tendency towards sociality: all known American species are social, and species in Madagascar are at least somewhat social. Members of other species in the same family but several different genera have independently developed social behaviour. For example, although Theridion nigroannulatum belongs to a genus with no other social species, T. nigroannulatum build colonies that may contain several thousand individuals that co-operate in prey capture and share food.[59] Other communal spiders include several Philoponella species (family Uloboridae), Agelena consociata (family Agelenidae) and Mallos gregalis (family Dictynidae). Social predatory spiders need to defend their prey against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and larger colonies are more successful in this. The herbivorous spider Bagheera kiplingi lives in small colonies which help to protect eggs and spiderlings. Even widow spiders (genus Latrodectus), which are notoriously cannibalistic, have formed small colonies in captivity, sharing webs and feeding together.

Dietary Needs and Habits

they eat people and other "prey"

Additional Information

Social Structure

A few spider species that build webs live together in large colonies. can form colonies of up to 50,000 individuals. has a strong tendency towards sociality: all known American species are social, and species in Madagascar are at least somewhat social. Members of other species in the same family but several different genera have independently developed social behaviour. For example, build colonies that may contain several thousand individuals that co-operate in prey capture and share food. Social predatory spiders need to defend their prey against kleptoparasites ("thieves"), and larger colonies are more successful in this.

Facial characteristics

8 eyes, sharp teeth

Geographic Origin and Distribution

can be found in caves and forests

Average Intelligence

fairly intelligent

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Eyes
This jumping spider's main eyes are very acute. The outer pair are "secondary eyes" and there are other pairs of secondary eyes on the sides and top of its head. Spiders have primarily four pairs of eyes on the top-front area of the head, arranged in patterns that vary from one family to another. The principal pair at the front are of the type called little eyes, which in most arthropods are only capable of detecting the direction from which light is coming, using the shadow cast by the walls of the cup. However, in spiders, these eyes are capable of forming images. The other pairs, called secondary eyes, are thought to be derived from the compound eyes of the ancestral chelicerates, but no longer have the separate facets typical of compound eyes. Unlike the principal eyes, in many spiders, these secondary eyes detect light reflected from a reflective tapetum lucidum, and wolf spiders can be spotted by torchlight reflected from the tapeta. 
Other senses As with other arthropods, spiders' cuticles would block out information about the outside world, except that they are penetrated by many sensors or connections from sensors to the nervous system. In fact, spiders and other arthropods have modified their cuticles into elaborate arrays of sensors. Various touch sensors, mostly bristles called setae, respond to different levels of force, from strong contact to very weak air currents. Chemical sensors provide equivalents of taste and smell, often by means of setae. An adult Araneus may have up to 1000 such chemosensitive setae, most on the tarsi of the first pair of legs. Males have more chemosensitive hairs on their pedipalps than females. They have been shown to be responsive to sex pheromones produced by females, both contact and airborne. The jumping spider Evarcha culicivora uses the scent of blood from mammals and other vertebrates, which is obtained by capturing blood-filled mosquitoes, to attract the opposite sex. Because they are able to tell the sexes apart, it is assumed the blood scent is mixed with pheromones. Spiders also have in the joints of their limbs slit sensillae that detects force and vibrations. In web-building spiders, all these mechanical and chemical sensors are more important than the eyes, while the eyes are most important to spiders that hunt actively.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

female Holshieth Riko Shirhosa Zhivhi Khrazoth Klaileh Lhieqila Razsuvar Chevishel Loroth
male Ek'zorroq Xounririb Ken'qir Zroq'ziet Zhinre Cakrid Sekza Cachax Aatiqriq Qrik'zat

Beauty Ideals

the stronger the female and bigger the male

Gender Ideals

these gals are like the amazons cause the only thing the males are good for is reproduction and are used to look after the kids while the woman provide

Courtship Ideals

Spiders generally use elaborate courtship rituals to prevent the large females from eating the small males before fertilization, except where the male is so much smaller that he is not worth eating. In web-weaving species, precise patterns of vibrations in the web are a major part of the rituals, while patterns of touches on the female's body are important in many spiders that hunt actively, and may "hypnotize" the female. Gestures and dances by the male are important for jumping spiders, which have excellent eyesight. If courtship is successful, the male injects his sperm from the palpal bulbs into the female via one or two openings on the underside of her abdomen.

Average Technological Level

Web types Convergent evolution in web construction, in other words, the use of similar techniques by remotely related species, is rampant. Orb web designs and the spinning behaviours that produce them are the best understood. The basic radial-then-spiral sequence visible in orb webs and the sense of direction required to build them may have been inherited from the common ancestors of most spider groups. However, the majority of spiders build non-orb webs. It used to be thought that the sticky orb web was an evolutionary innovation resulting in the diversification of the Orbiculariae. Now, however, it appears that non-orb spiders are a sub-group that evolved from orb-web spiders, and non-orb spiders have over 40% more species and are four times as abundant as orb-web spiders. Their greater success may be because sphecid wasps, which are often the dominant predators of spiders, much prefer to attack spiders that have flat webs.
Orb
About half the potential prey that hit orb webs escape. A web has to perform three functions: intercepting the prey (intersection), absorbing its momentum without breaking (stopping), and trapping the prey by entangling it or sticking to it (retention). No single design is best for all prey. For example: wider spacing of lines will increase the web's area and hence its ability to intercept prey, but reduce its stopping power and retention; closer spacing, larger sticky droplets and thicker lines would improve retention but would make it easier for potential prey to see and avoid the web, at least during the day. However, there are no consistent differences between orb webs built for use during the day and those built for use at night. In fact, there is no simple relationship between orb web design features and the prey they capture, as each orb-weaving species takes a wide range of prey.
The hubs of orb webs, where the spiders lurk, are usually above the centre, as the spiders can move downwards faster than upwards. If there is an obvious direction in which the spider can retreat to avoid its own predators, the hub is usually offset towards that direction.
Horizontal orb webs are fairly common, despite being less effective at intercepting and retaining prey and more vulnerable to damage by rain and falling debris. Various researchers have suggested that horizontal webs offer compensating advantages, such as reduced vulnerability to wind damage; reduced visibility to prey flying upwards, because of the back-lighting from the sky; enabling oscillations to catch insects in slow horizontal flight. However, there is no single explanation for the common use of horizontal orb webs.
Spiders often attach highly visible silk bands to their webs. Field research suggests that webs with more decorative bands captured more prey per hour. However, a laboratory study showed that spiders reduce the building of these decorations if they sense the presence of predators.
There are several unusual variants of orb-web, many of them convergently evolved, including attachment of lines to the surface of water, possibly to trap insects in or on the surface; webs with twigs through their centres, possibly to hide the spiders from predators; "ladder-like" webs that appear most effective in catching moths. However, the significance of many variations is unclear.
Cobweb
Members of the family Theridiidae weave irregular, tangled, three-dimensional webs, popularly known as cobwebs. There seems to be an evolutionary trend towards a reduction in the amount of sticky silk used, leading to its total absence in some species. The construction of cobwebs is less stereotyped than that of orb-webs and may take several days.
Other The Linyphiidae generally make horizontal but uneven sheets, with tangles of stopping threads above. Insects that hit the stopping threads fall onto the sheet or are shaken onto it by the spider, and are held by sticky threads on the sheet until the spider can attack from below.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

The Language of ’emiki

Common Etiquette Rules

do not refuse food when offered

Common Dress Code

leather clothes and those of higher status have fancy clothes woven of webs

Culture and Cultural Heritage

they are great hunters. and often trade meats and furs. they have a god they worship and has learned how to work with metals and but they do not have very advanced tech except for what they find in raided caravans. they don't have magic and are quite fearful of it. each colony has its own queen. hunters and warriors. they have weapons they stole and proper leather and hide armour. they have spears made of stone but are best with melee attacking.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

it is a tradition for men to perform in a traditional play on the summer solstice. It's supposed to be a symbol of individualism and stability and it's usually part of a religious ritual or festivity that can last for almost a week. it is tradition to eat the recently deceased. It's supposed to help the spirit move on. it is a tradition for people to try to scare each other once every six months. It's supposed to be a symbol of elegance and loyalty and it's usually part of a larger celebration that can last for up to a week.

Common Taboos

do not reject food given to you.

History

they are the by-product of nymphs and giant spiders. it's weird I know.

Common Myths and Legends

A tragic myth about a proud barbarian. Her tale involves madness, a melancholy duchess, betrayal, an unexpected death and wild animals.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

they are the natural predators of the druvenian. they are chill with the naiads.

Lifespan

120

Average Height

2.1 meters

Average Weight

952.54 kilograms

Average Physique

big spider people, they are like centaurs with spider body and a human torso

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Only three classes of pigment have been identified in spiders, although other pigments have been detected but not yet characterized.  In some species, the exocuticle of the legs and prosoma is modified by a tanning process, resulting in brown colouration. resulting in its green colour. Guanine is responsible for the white markings of the European garden spider. creates their silvery appearance. The white prosoma of results from hairs reflecting the light, Lycosa and Josa both have areas of modified cuticle that act as light reflectors.