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Spider - Acanthepeira

Spider - Acanthepeira
Piney Point, Manatee County, Florida, USA
August 31, 2009

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Epigyne crop?
Hi, Mike ...I was wondering if you would be willing to crop and post an image of the epigyne of this spider? Your photos are very, very nice and I would imagine that a crop would turn out just fine. I've been reading a lot on Acanthepeira the last few days...so I want to see how many of them I may be able to ID to species before I forget most of the things I read. lol. As you've probably seen, 3 of the 4 species of this genus are unrepresented on Bug Guide...so that is another incentive, if ya ask me. :)

 
Crop of Epigyne Area
Hope this helps. I've cropped the image as best I can. Usually I shoot in RAW, but sometimes I forget to change from JPEG. This particular shot was in JPEG. Sorry, if image leaves something to be desired. However, it was of the same individual.

If this image does not suit your needs, I may have other images of Acanthepeira in my files. You will have to wait for an image search as I am leaving for "Keokuk" Iowa for Thanksgiving vacation. I'll return on December 3, 2009.

 
Thank you :)
I think this is a female Acanthepeira cherokee, after the epigynum crop. Even though the crop is hard to see clearly, I can still tell that the scape is really short. That, combined with your location (Florida), the very short spikes on the abdomen make me think cherokee. I will add, though, that Levi writes that "it can be exceedingly difficult to separate some Acanthepeira species from the southeastern United States and it appears that three species interbreed". However, he then shows some scapes and epigynums from those intermediate species (mixed species) and none of them look like yours. So I personally think yours is a 'full bred' cherokee.

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