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Copyright © 2009 Arlo Pelegrin

Spider
Buffalo Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
September 29, 2009
Size: 2mm

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Contributed by Arlo Pelegrin on 1 October, 2009 - 2:17am
Last updated 1 October, 2009 - 9:17am

Hi, Arlo- There are many,
Hi, Arlo-

There are many, many species in this family, and many of them are rather similar in appearance. It might be possible to come closer to a determination if we good images of the epigyne, for example (your ventral view, but a little closer and sharper), but your specimen looks subadult to me, which makes things (even more) difficult.

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 1 October, 2009 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

 
Thought this was
probably a subadult, so I'm happy with the Family level ID for now (this is a new one for me.) Temperatures are dropping sharply in this region, so do these spiders overwinter as subadults?
… Arlo Pelegrin, 1 October, 2009 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Arlo Pelegrin, 1 October, 2009 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

Something in the Dictynidae,
Something in the Dictynidae, I would guess.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 1 October, 2009 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

 
That seems
right to me too. Probably safe to move it to family level.
… Lynette Schimming, 1 October, 2009 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

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