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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Unidentified spiderlings/young jumpers
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Spider
Copyright © 2007 Sam Houston

Spider
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
November 28, 2007
Size: 1mm (-1/16")
Extremely small spider. So small in fact that I could barely see it with my eyes alone. I just happened to see a speck moving and took several pics. This is the only one with the most focus. It looks like a jumping spider of some sort. Weird eyes though. Female ?
Please help with ID.
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Contributed by Sam Houston on 28 November, 2007 - 10:47pm
Last updated 13 June, 2015 - 1:35pm

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.
… Chad Heins, 13 June, 2015 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

Also...
Maevia inclemens should be considered.
… Chad Heins, 26 January, 2015 - 4:58pm login or register to post comments

2nd instar spiderling
I fixed the levels so we could get a better look at it.

Still can't say what it is though, other than a 2nd instar spiderling. The abdomen markings are pretty similar for most 1st and 2nd instar spiderlings that are translucent like this, and I believe they are left-over creases from the embryonic inversion that occurs before eclosion.

Karl, if this was a Thiodina from his area you would probably recognize it right away without question. Even the 2nd instar (and possibly the 1st instar, don't remember now) Thiodina spiderlings are clear with white scales and have a black central carapace spot. Only the adult males are ever dark.
… Jay Barnes, 29 November, 2007 - 10:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Just curious but
what levels did you fix ? Just so if I didn't do something I should have maybe I can fix it next time.
… Sam Houston, 30 November, 2007 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

Possibly newly hatched?
It looks like it may have been newly hatched/moulted and so the colors and patterns are still faint.

As to ID could it belong in the Thiodininae subfamily??
… Karl Volkman, 29 November, 2007 - 1:08am login or register to post comments

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