The front pair of legs are uneven in appearance with the tibia clothed in dense hairs while the naked terminal segments are very slender.

[2] It originated from warmer parts of the Old World where its typical habitat is on the trunk or among dead twigs and branches of trees.

[3] Uloborus plumipes is a cribellate spider with a cribellum, a silk spinning organ which consists of one or more plates covered in thousands of tiny spigots.

The fine fibres produced are combined by comblike bristles on the hind legs into slender silk threads with a fuzzy texture that are able to trap prey without the use of glue.

[4] This spider is an expert in camouflage and very much resembles a bit of dead bark or other piece of detritus as it dangles from its web.

It hangs inertly in the centre of the small, horizontal web it has spun with its legs in line with its body.

The web often looks bedraggled with broken strands and the whole effect is of an ancient, abandoned cobweb with a scrap of dead plant material adhering to it.