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Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female

Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - Female
47.6305N 52.6875W (WGS84), Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
March 7, 2008
Size: 5 mm body length
This spider was crawling on our dining room tablecloth. It's still cold outside so, spiders will not show up around here outdoors for another couple of months. I'm not sure why this one suddenly appeared inside. It started to crawl off the side of the table and in my rush to keep it from getting away, I think I must have injured it. You can see in the last two photos that the 'sac' collapsed and a whitish substance appeared around its left front legs. I guess the 'sac' broke and this stuff was from inside? I think it's Steatoda bipunctata and a female but would appreciate confirmation. I'm also going to take this specimen to Roger Pickavance for hands-on identification. I'll post the results here.

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Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female Steatoda bipunctata? - Steatoda bipunctata - female

Species Confirmed
Here's the email report that I received from Dr. Roger Pickavance, who is recently retired from the Biology Faculty at Memorial University, after he did a hands-on inspection of the preserved specimen:
"It is a Steatoda bipunctata female. This species is an introduction from Europe, and very frequently encountered in/on houses, sheds fences etc in the general vicinity of human activity. The white stuff is probably a mixture of stored material waiting to be made into eggs and general body fluids."  I've moved the images to the species page.

Not an expert,
but it certainly looks like a visual match.

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