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Potter’s Grass Spider (Agelenopsis potteri)
Photo#483439
Copyright © 2011
Kevin Pfeiffer
Epigynum, (more or less) ventral view (BG:461555) -
Agelenopsis potteri
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Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cleared with clove oil.
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Contributed by
Kevin Pfeiffer
on 6 January, 2011 - 6:27am
Last updated 6 January, 2011 - 3:14pm
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I was not sure about this specimen until I dissected the epigynum; even then, I was initially led astray as I focused on the dorsal view of
A. emertoni
depicted in Paquin & Dupérré, 2003.* But once I flipped the whole structure over and looked at things ventrally, it all became clear; speaking of which, cleared in clove oil.
-K
* If you haven't already done so, it's worth looking at the corrections they published in Zootaxa (2006) as a number of the views of the spermathecae are incorrectly marked "dorsale" when they are actually "ventrale".
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Kevin Pfeiffer
, 6 January, 2011 - 6:37am