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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Asagena » Asagena americana
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Ground Spider? - Asagena americana
Copyright © 2009 Dorothy E. Pugh

Ground Spider? - Asagena americana
Hanging Rock State Park, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA
May 22, 2008
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 18 January, 2009 - 8:28am
Last updated 14 February, 2012 - 9:51am

Moved
Moved from Entelegynes . We can just barely see the spurs under the femurs on your spider.
… Lynette Elliott, 14 February, 2012 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 24 June, 2009 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

Not an expert
but I just wanted to say I have a hard time telling some of the Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders) from some of the Corinnidae (Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders). For example Micaria vs. Castianeira
… John R. Maxwell, 18 January, 2009 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

 
Black spider with white marked abdomen
I want to say Micaria, but the abdomen seems too short, and the carapace seems too narrow at the eyes? I don't really like Castianeira for this either. Interesting. Maybe it's a juvenile?
… Lynette Elliott, 18 January, 2009 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

 
Black & White
So I sorted out some black and white spiders here and came up with other possibilities:
or
… Lynette Elliott, 18 January, 2009 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

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