Most of the Velvet Spider species are found in the Old World - the Mediterranean, Africa, Europe - with one species found in South America. Many are referred to as "ladybird spiders" due to her distinctive colouration. They display some unique behavioral traits, with some forming a social colony that cooperate in brood-raising. More unusually, the Seothyra species plays brood host to her own offspring, feeding them first by regurgitating her own liquified insides, and then, when those are gone, they devour what is left of her.
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