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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Sheetweb Spiders (Linyphiinae) » Helophora
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Unknown Spider - Helophora
Copyright © 2007 Chad Heins

Unknown Spider - Helophora
Cobb River Waterfowl Production Area, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
October 11, 2007

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Contributed by Chad Heins on 20 March, 2009 - 12:03am
Last updated 27 August, 2009 - 9:57am

Moved
Moved from Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders. Rod took another look and commited to Helophora.
… Lynette Schimming, 27 August, 2009 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

 
Someone kicked his fence post
Someone kicked his fence post? :-)

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 28 August, 2009 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 7 April, 2009 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

Moving to family page for now...
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… Ken Schneider, 7 April, 2009 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

Thanks!
I had a feeling it would get left at that.
… Chad Heins, 24 March, 2009 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

From Rod Crawford:
This is certainly a linyphiid, probably an adult female, but could be
Bathyphantes, Helophora, Linyphantes or any of several other genera -
epigynum needed.
… Lynette Schimming, 24 March, 2009 - 8:20am login or register to post comments

 
not to neglect
Grammonota (Erigoninae)
from the abdominal chevrons...
size of? any more?
… erichedwards, 24 March, 2009 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

tough one
It reminds me of one of these, but I'm not very confident.

esp. because my initial feeling was cobweb spider based on the eyes.
… Lynette Schimming, 20 March, 2009 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

 
very keen
especially when you look at the other pic
and notice that large-looking epigynal
process...
I take back Grammonota.
… erichedwards, 31 March, 2009 - 10:33pm login or register to post comments

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