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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) » Oxyopes » Western Lynx Spider (Oxyopes scalaris)

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Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris -

Marin County, California, USA
May 6, 2008
Size: 1cm legspan

I'm reasonably certain this is Oxyopes acleistus, but all of the photos on the guide were taken in Florida, so I can't be 100% sure it is the same species that occurs out here.

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Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris - male

Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris - male

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Contributed by Natalie McNear on 6 May, 2008 - 9:31pm
Last updated 13 January, 2012 - 3:50pm

Moved

Moved from Oxyopes. ID based on range and markings.

… Lynette Elliott, 13 January, 2012 - 3:50pm

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Cool spider!

I can't help with the ID, but the following list of CA spiders has only 6 species of lynx spiders and 3 species in the genus Oxyopes. None of them are acleistus, so either the list is incomplete or you have a different spider...

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stevelew/soc.html

… Ken Schneider, 7 May, 2008 - 10:42am

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Re: Cool spider!

Thanks for that link. It seems the only two Oxyopes in this region are O. scalaris and O. salticus, and neither of those look like a perfect match to me based on the coloration of the cephalothorax (see photos here and here). None of the other species in the family occur in this area either... I guess O. scalaris looks more like my spider than O. salticus. I dunno...

… Natalie McNear, 8 May, 2008 - 7:25pm

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I'm pretty new to spider ID -

but it seems that, unfortunately, the coloration of the abdomen and thorax can vary quite a bit in some spider species - other, less variable characters (pedipalp and epigynum morphology) are often used to get to species or even genus. Maybe one of the spider experts can help with this image, though - I'm not even sure it is Oxyopes, although you may well be correct.

… Ken Schneider, 8 May, 2008 - 8:29pm

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