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Pirate Spider - Mimetus puritanus
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Pirate Spider - Mimetus puritanus
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 6, 2009
Size: ~3-4mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 6 June, 2009 - 5:27pm
Last updated 7 June, 2009 - 9:17am

Moved
Moved from Mimetus.
… Lynette Schimming, 7 June, 2009 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

Mimetus puritanus?
An immature male. Most common species for your area, according to Kaston (1948), is M. puritanus and it looks like the couple specimens that I've seen.

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 6 June, 2009 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

 
M. puritanus
Kevin, do you think it's safe to move it to a species page?
… tom murray, 7 June, 2009 - 12:05am login or register to post comments

 
Species page?
> Kevin, do you think it's safe to move it to a species page?

It's subadult, so a more detailed determination is not really possible. I would put it down as Mimetus cf. puritanus... but I don't know how that translates into BG. Certainly if it looks like M. puritanus it can't hurt too much to place it there -- who can say otherwise? :-)

But, you might want to ask one of the editors (Lynette, John & Jane, etc.).

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 7 June, 2009 - 1:44am login or register to post comments

That's it
Too bad none of these are identified beyond genus.
… tom murray, 6 June, 2009 - 7:01pm login or register to post comments

Pirate Spider?
What do you think of Mimetus?
… Lynette Schimming, 6 June, 2009 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

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