Spider

Moved

Moved from Spiders. I think Laura is right about this one. They eyes are too close together for simoni. It might be hard to place further until someone can get a local expert to ID a similiar one using a microscope.

… Lynette Elliott, 4 March, 2015 - 8:10am

Moved

Moved from ID Request. Thank you. That image is helpful. I'm thinking this spider is a juvenile which is making it hard for me to place. I'm going to guess juvenile Metaltella simoni, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Let's see what others think.

… Lynette Elliott, 20 December, 2014 - 8:23am

Thinking the legs are a little too ...

spiny for M. simoni but not sure what family it is.

… Laura P., 20 December, 2014 - 11:05am

It was found about 100 yards

It was found about 100 yards from where i did find sevral M. simoni specimens, but it does look quite spiny. Perhaps I can locate another one and get better pictures.

… Jennifer Thompson, 20 December, 2014 - 4:24pm

How big was it?

I'm thinking Dictynidae.

… Laura P., 22 December, 2014 - 9:43am

Smaller than M. simoni, about

Smaller than M. simoni, about 6-8mm. This one was found under a rock in a drainage area that leads to Shoal Creek in the Far West off-leash dog park in north central Austin. It's a large area that has a big damn and a couple water run off collection ponds. I found her below the damn in an area that looks like a creek. I will go back this week and see if I can find another.

… Jennifer Thompson, 22 December, 2014 - 10:03am

So I found a very similar spi

So I found a very similar spider, here: spider
Found on my property in Wimberley, Hays County, TX today.

… Jennifer Thompson, 22 December, 2014 - 10:41pm

Nice images!

They look like possibly Cicurina to me or another similar genus. If it is Cicurina currently there's not much hope of narrowing it down any further than genus. There are well over 100 species in the genus in our range, the genus needs to be revised and there's not a lot of information freely available on them. If it is one of the ones that has information available for it online we'd still need to see the genitalia to figure it out.

… Laura P., 22 December, 2014 - 10:54pm

The only Cicurina around here

The only Cicurina around here I have even read about are the eyeless blind cave spiders, and the book I have on spiders does not describe any of the species, just the Genus, and barely. I don't think my camera has the zoom or the resolution to get good pictures of genitalia, but I may try anyway. I have kept the second spider though, and I have a microscope with a camera attached, perhaps I can get better images (though not sure how I would turn it over, lol). They are pretty little things nonetheless.

… Jennifer Thompson, 23 December, 2014 - 12:15am

Full dorsal?

Did you take any shots from directly above? I'd like to see the entire spider... including the spinnerets if possible. Right off the bat I thought Cicurina, but I'm not positive about that.

… Lynette Elliott, 18 December, 2014 - 7:48am

I usually take a much better

I usually take a much better variety of pictures from different angles, but I guess not of this one. The last picture is the most dorsal one I took apparently.

… Jennifer Thompson, 18 December, 2014 - 9:48am