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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona) » Neoscona crucifera
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BG2417 D0032 - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2009 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

BG2417 D0032 - Neoscona crucifera
Honey Island Swamp, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA
June 23, 2007
Size: body length 9.7 mm.
Specimen collected by Linda Auld and kindly loaned to us for photography.
The eye arrangement is consistent with an orb weaver of some sort.
Correction/further enlightenment would be appreciated.
Gayle

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 11 August, 2009 - 9:54am
Last updated 27 February, 2011 - 11:44am

Moved
Moved from Spotted Orbweavers.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 February, 2011 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders. I agree with the comments below, plus add that Araneus has a horizontal groove instead of the longitutinal groove on your spider. The problem with using this a field marking is that 1)in most spider pictures the large abdomen completely blocks the view of the groove area, and 2) depending on which Araneus you are looking at some of the horizontal grooves are so small they may lead you to believe the groove isn't there or is going the other direction. The horizontal groove on the cat-spider seems to be pretty prominent. See
… Lynette Elliott, 13 August, 2009 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

The ventral image makes it look to be
Neoscona, and the lack of any pattern on the abdomen would lead us to say crucifera, but...
Other folks often talk about a crease in the carapace or something for Neoscona. We have never been too certain exactly what that is, but yours does seem to have something like that.
… john and jane balaban, 11 August, 2009 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

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