[5] This relationship can be commensal or even mutual if the dewdrop spider feeds on small trapped insects that are not eaten by the host.

[6] The body has a characteristic conical or triangle shape with a shorter third pair of legs, common in web dwelling spiders.

[8] The silver coloration of Argyrodes may be able to attract moths and other insects as it stimulates their photoreceptors and may resemble starlight.

[9] The most striking anatomical character of Argyrodes and related other genera is a prosomatic sexual dimorphism, the cephalic part of male's cephalothorax being often strangely modified by "deformations" such as knobs, notches and sulci.

During copulation they are gripped by the chelicerae of the female to contact the secretion of an underlying exocrin organ discovered and named clypeal or acronal gland by André Lopez(1974)(external link : "archentoflor").

[5] A. elevatus is found in the southern US, A. nephilae in Florida and A. pluto in Maryland, Virginia, and Missouri.