It has a wide distribution: found in "Europe, North Africa, Turkey, temperate Asia to China, Korea, Japan.

"[1] This particular spitting spider features the presence of silk glands in its cephalothorax.

In contrast to the pseudoscorpions that use the silk from the cephalothorax glands to make nests, the spitting spider uses it to catch prey in a very particular way.

Then it squeezes the back of its body together and spits two silk threads, in 1/600 s, in a zigzag manner over the victim.

The mother makes a nursery web for the emerged spiderlings, and carries her eggs under her belly in a net of silk.