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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » Mygalomorphs (Mygalomorphae) » Purseweb Spiders (Atypidae) » Sphodros » Black purseweb spider (Sphodros niger)
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Is this Sphodros niger? - Sphodros niger
Copyright © 2009 john and jane balaban

Is this Sphodros niger? - Sphodros niger
Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 16, 2009
Size: ~15mm
Do we even have pursewebs in Chicago? This guy was just walking down the bike path that runs between the Chicago River and an open oak savanna.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 June, 2009 - 2:29pm
Last updated 18 June, 2009 - 9:21am

Cool
and someone just found an almost identical one in VA. See this one.
… Lynette Elliott, 17 June, 2009 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

Holy #$%&!:-)
I never would have guessed they range that far north, either, but yes, that is what this is....I know we supposedly had them in Cincinnati when I lived there, but I never saw a web, nothin'....
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 June, 2009 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

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