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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Long-jawed Orb Weavers (Tetragnathidae) » Longjawed Orbweavers (Tetragnatha) » Tetragnatha guatemalensis
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Tetragnatha guatemalensis, male - Tetragnatha guatemalensis - male
Copyright © 2010 Joe Lapp

Tetragnatha guatemalensis, male - Tetragnatha guatemalensis - Male
Starnes Island, Lake Travis, Travis County, Texas, USA
November 9, 2007
Size: not recorded
In 2007 four giant spider webs were identified in Texas (see here for a log and here for videos). Tetragnathids were collected from all of the webs. Hank Guarisco and Allen Dean identified T. guatemalensis in the two webs on Lake Tawakoni. I collected specimens from the two webs on Lake Travis. The males are easy to identify by their paracymbium fingers, and all the males I collected had them. Hank Guarisco informed me of this paracymbium finger rule of thumb and may even have been literally looking over my should for this ID.

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