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A ghost spider. Nice shot.

… Lynette Schimming, 24 July, 2009 - 11:04pm

Thank you

… Dorothy E. Pugh, 25 July, 2009 - 8:00am

I wonder if one can pick out

I wonder if one can pick out a possible species on the basis of the speckled abdomen?

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 24 July, 2009 - 11:56pm

That would be nice

The only speckled one I know of is A. celer. I guess there are around 37 species, so it stands to reason there are more spotted ones out there.

… Lynette Schimming, 25 July, 2009 - 12:03am

Yeah, I see. Interestingly, I

Yeah, I see. Interestingly, I've got a specimen from Durham myself that I tentatively labeled A. celer (had to dig out the images as they've not yet been catalogued). But I also had this note in my files: Kaston says that A. maculata is “very similar” and A. pectorosa “closely resembles” it.

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 July, 2009 - 12:22am

Good info.

If there was a way to narrow down all the spotted ones we could make a no-taxon page and group them all together.

… Lynette Schimming, 25 July, 2009 - 9:49am

Hmmm, I could do this, I don'

Hmmm, I could do this, I don't think, as I don't know enough about them. Also, I realize the practicality of this, but not sure it's such a good idea to create no taxon groups that aren't based on actual species groups (although I think it's already being done, so the precedence for this certainly exists).

-K

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 July, 2009 - 11:47am