not the first time I was way off the mark - Darrell Ubick was kind enough to look at these images and suggested the palp was quite similar to Agroeca. This means the spider has two claws instead of three, which I glossed over because I couldn't see good claw tufts and assumed it was three-clawed... Indeed, the palp is nearly identical to the drawings of A. emertoni in Kaston's Spiders of Connecticut. However, I suspect this is A. trivittata based on the range - just trying to find a drawing of the A.. trivittata palp before moving to species page.

showing retrolateral spine, confirming A. trivittata, as expected by range.

Congrats on the ID, Ken! This series helped me last night when I was keying what turned out to be Agroeca cf. pratensis (my first liocranid!). Mine has 3 pairs of ventral spines on Tibia I. I'll recheck for the retrolateral spine on patella IV. Mine is a female so it shouldn't have one.

Unfortunately, I don't have a live habitus shot, so I won't be posting pics of this one to BugGuide. However, I'll keep an eye out for another live specimen, as I see there isn't a picture for that species in BugGuide.

is not required for BG, although preferred. We have some species in BG only represented by pinned images and it would be nice to have some shots of your preserved spider as a "place holder" until we get a good live image. As you can see with my spider, the live image I have is pretty borderline anyway...