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Neoscona webs

Just wondering if there is a reference out there that mentions anything about the webs of specific species of Neoscona.

I'm wondering if N. domiciliorum makes a heavier stabilimentum than the other species of Neoscona?

Here are the images in question for future discussion:

Unidentified


N. domiciliorum




None of the other identified Neoscona species have been photographed with heavy stabilimentum. Berman & Levi's "The Orb Weaver Genus Neoscona in North America" tells a little about the webs of N. arabesca & hentzii (crucifera) and shows an image of an oaxacensis web, but domiciliorum and stabilimentum are not mentioned.

Comstock's Spider Book talks about the stabilimentum of webs and states that immature spiders are more apt to create a stabilimentum than older spiders. He notes this is especially true of Metargiope and Uloborus. He does mention N. benjamina (domiciliorum), but does not have an image or go into detail about its stabilimentum.

Spider Book
Have you checked Comstock's Spider Book (1)? It has detailed descriptions of webs for many araneid species. You may have to figure out what these species were called ~100 years ago in order to look them up.

 
Good idea
I'll skim through it today. I already checked Spiders of North America and How to Know the Spiders. - Done & noted above.

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