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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Species Cheiracanthium mildei

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Miturgidae (Prowling Spiders)
Genus Cheiracanthium (Longlegged Sac Spiders)
Species mildei (Cheiracanthium mildei)
Other Common Names
Yellow Sac Spider, Black-footed Spider
Size
7-10 mm
Identification

C. mildei is a relatively small, pale greenish, tan or straw colored spider. Its front pair of legs is longer than the others, but all four pairs end in double claws. (www.zoo.org)
Season
Indoor populations of C. mildei are non-seasonal and can be adult at any time.
Food
Any small invertebrate (e.g. - insects)
Life Cycle
After mating, females lay 30-48 eggs, cover them in a thin, white silken sac and guard them. The egg sacs may be found in protected areas, or even wrapped in a folded leaf. All stages of sac spiders make a silken cell (the "sac"), in which they rest when not active.
Print References
A Golden Guide Spiders and Their Kin, page 89
Works Cited
1.Spiders and Their Kin: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
By Herbert W. Levi, Lorna R. Levi, Nicholas Strekalovsky