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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Araneus cingulatus
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Green orbweaver - Araneus cingulatus - male
Copyright © 2011 Rich Hoyer

Green orbweaver - Araneus cingulatus - Male
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
June 22, 2011
A final view after his molt.

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Contributed by Rich Hoyer on 25 June, 2011 - 2:25am
Last updated 6 April, 2016 - 7:03pm

Moved
Moved from holding bin for green Araneus.
… john and jane balaban, 6 April, 2016 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

Male green Araneus
How lucky we are that it molted so quickly!

I'd like to see if it changes color at all as it 'hardens'. Anyway we are pretty sure you have bonsallae in your area from your previous image


This spider looks very similar to bonsallae, but seems to be lacking the black on the abdomen. I'm going to guess this one is cingulatus, but I'd like to wait a few days.. and see what John B. & Kevin P. think.

I'm going to try to look at the palps & compare to Levi. I'll let you know if I see anything.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 June, 2011 - 10:02am login or register to post comments

 
Palps
I looked carefully at the palps and here is what I came up with. The little pointy thing... (spur) matches cingulatus in shape and size. The only thing that bothers me is that Levi didn't draw in the two hairs (macrosetae) on the end of the palp (cymbium?). He/she just put two dots. However the same thing was done on the drawings of A. guttulatus on pg. 533 with the two macrosetae shown in another drawing, so perhaps that's not an issue.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 June, 2011 - 10:33am login or register to post comments

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