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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Cryptachaea » Cryptachaea rupicola
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spider - Cryptachaea rupicola - female
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

spider - Cryptachaea rupicola - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Size: 1.6mm
This female looks like she might have matured in captivity. Picture taken 12-11-11.

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spider - Cryptachaea rupicola - female spider - Cryptachaea rupicola
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Contributed by tom murray on 11 December, 2011 - 8:17pm
Last updated 2 July, 2012 - 9:01am

Moved
Moved from Parasteatoda tabulata. Jonathan (Neumann) and I are fairly certain now that this is Cryptachaea, probably rupicola.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 2 July, 2012 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Immature
Bad news -- no epigynum that I could see.

But even stranger, the other "specimen", which was supposed to be the male...



...is missing. I do have something, though, what looks like the recent/just occurring/partial moult into a mature... fly? I shot one image which I'll link in here in a moment.

Perhaps the male was parasitized? But how/when and with no remains?

If it is any consolation, looking at the image of the male, he still looks subadult to me.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 9 March, 2012 - 8:09am login or register to post comments

 
Discarding specimen.
Discarding specimen.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 28 March, 2012 - 6:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cobweb Spiders.
… tom murray, 12 December, 2011 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

Looks like you have crosslinked them
Male to female and vice versa.
… john and jane balaban, 11 December, 2011 - 9:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Fixed
Thanks for catching that.
… tom murray, 11 December, 2011 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

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