The dorsal side of the abdomen is marked with three longitudinal white stripes and six pairs of dots, which are part of the spider's patterning.

[6] Within the genus Stegodyphus, 20 species were assigned according to social status, distribution range, and phenotypic expression of male and female reproduction characteristics.

[8] Stegodyphus sarasinorum is native to south and southeast Asia, predominantly in the countries of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar.

One of the preferred places of S. sarasinorum is the prickly pear bush, because it serves as a strong support for their silken dwellings and webs.

are usually found in locations of complex vegetation structure and reduced habitat niches as compared to solitary spiders.

The environmental conditions are important cues for group living that prevent a loss of fitness as a result of high resource competition.

Their tendency to engage in group living and cooperative breeding evolved due to high predation pressure and the ample prey availability makes permanent sociality an evolutionarily stable strategy.

[10] Stegodyphus sarasinorum is largely dependent on communal living, and they disperse at a lower rate compared to most spiders.

In the smaller groups, spiders are generally even more cooperative and less competitive since they depend on each other more, and have the common interests of feeding and avoiding predators.

Communal feeding allows for a reliable and consistent amount of prey and though each spider eats less in large groups, this system is more beneficial since solitary hunting is too risky.

Sensing the vibrations of struggle from caught insects, the spiders scurry over to pull and drag the prey back to their nest.

At times, disentangling prey can damage the webs, and following capture, female workers get back to filling in any gaps with new threads.

[15] Stegodyphus sarasinorum eats many types of prey such as bees, mosquitoes, crickets, beetles, butterflies, and moths that get caught in the webs.

[16] The web of S. sarasinorum is made up of longitudinal and zig-zag lines and the thickness and use of threads depending on the purpose of that section.

The foundational line is jointly made by six or seven spiders moving back and forth on the threads in order to thicken that region.

S. sarasinorum uses the hind pair of legs, rubbing against spinnerets and moving quickly across the web to lay out the threads in an efficient fashion.

S. sarasinorum is well known for the collaborative nature of web construction with little idleness and each spider moves to an incomplete section to finish the task.

[6] When energy needs increase, S. sarasinorum either focuses more on capturing large sized insects or they more quickly immobilize their prey to improve their efficiency.

Most of the time, the first spider to emerge from the nest after rest observes the web and checks for any damage, and then the active female workers are responsible for the repair work.

During winter, these spiders thicken the nest walls and any holes are skillfully closed to better protect themselves from rain and wind.

[18] Stegodyphus sarasinorum is a semelparous species and females invest all their time and resources into a single reproduction event.

Mothers feed their juveniles through regurgitation which involves liquefaction of her internal organs to create material that will increase the fitness of her young.

[5] Stegodyphus sarasinorum is a social spider, so web building and feeding are all communal practices, depending on each other for survival.

It is likely that social spiders that are distantly related and have evolved independently of each other have task differentiation unrelated to their size or hunger state.

[citation needed] The nests constructed by the Stegodyphus genus are the primary means of protection from predators and environmental stressors such as wind and fire as well.

Leaving the nests is highly risky because they become vulnerable to predator attack and they face fitness costs from solar radiation and rains during solitary hunting.