Hackled orb-weaver
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Hackled orbweavers
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Arachnida
| ordo = Araneae
| subordo = Araneomorphae
| familia = Uloboridae
| familia_authority = Thorell, 1869
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Ariston (spider)
Astavakra
Conifaber
Daramulunia
Hyptiotes
Lubinella
Miagrammopes
Octonoba
Orinomana
Philoponella
Polenecia
Purumitra
Siratoba
Sybota
Tangaroa
Uloborus
Waitkera
Zosis
}}
The hackled orbweavers (family Uloboridae) have the special distinction of being non-venomous spiders. They also have a special adaptation that enables them to produce a feathery, fuzzy silk called cribellate (or hackled) silk. These spiders do not use an adhesive on their orb webs, but rather the very fine fibers on each strand of silk tends to ensnare prey. Hackled orbweaver webs often have a stabilimentum or zig-zag pattern through the center.