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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Sheetweb Spiders (Linyphiinae) » Saaristoa » Saaristoa sammamish
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little black spider - Saaristoa sammamish - male
Copyright © 2010 Lynette Elliott

little black spider - Saaristoa sammamish - Male
Morse Wildlife Preserve, Pierce County, Washington, USA
April 23, 2010
Size: around 3 mm
I have this in alcohol for Rod, hopefully it's mature. Found in the grass under a large fir tree down by the pond.
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 25 April, 2010 - 11:35am
Last updated 27 October, 2010 - 9:09am

Moved
Moved from Spiders. ID confirmed by Rod Crawford.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 October, 2010 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

 
Super! Any more images?
Super!

Any more images?
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 27 October, 2010 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

 
Nope
I had it in a vial and the little bugger died before I could take any studio shots. I don't shoot dead ones.. usually. I didn't know it would be anything this interesting. I have noticed that the smaller a spider is, the easier it dies. The little ones need to have moist towels placed in the vial right away so they don't croak.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 October, 2010 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

Hmmm, perhaps a Microneta spe
Hmmm, perhaps a Microneta species??

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 April, 2010 - 11:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Saaristoa sammamish
ID by Rod Crawford with specimen under scope. Now to make a page...

oops I may have jumped the gun... waiting for confirmation from Rod.
… Lynette Elliott, 26 October, 2010 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Well, that would be a nice fi
Well, that would be a nice find -- RC is the one who moved the species from Lepthyphantes in 1988. Fingers crossed.

Lissner writes that the distinguishing characteristics of Saaristoa are: head not elevated in males; all tibiae with two dorsal spines (i.e., tibial spine formula: 2222). Metatarsus IV no trichobothrium

Your specimen certainly seems to have the same broad carapace anteriorly that the other species do.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 27 October, 2010 - 1:27am login or register to post comments

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