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Spider with marbled abdomen - Achaearanea tepidariorum - male
Copyright © 2006 Ashley Bradford

Spider with marbled abdomen - Achaearanea tepidariorum - Male
Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
August 22, 2006
This spider must have seen me before I saw it - when I spotted it, I wasn't even sure it was a spider, then I wasn't sure it was alive, so of course I had to poke it. It was alive. It has great markings for such a small thing. Anybody know what it is?

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Spider with marbled abdomen - Achaearanea tepidariorum - male Spider with marbled abdomen - Achaearanea tepidariorum - male
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 23 August, 2006 - 11:36am
Last updated 20 September, 2006 - 3:31pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 20 September, 2006 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

Cobweb weaver.
This is a female cobweb weaver in the family Theridiidae, genus Achaearanea, and probably the highly-variable A. tepidariorum. This species is the "house spider" of the U.S. Europeans assign "house spider" to another species in a different family! Please see existing images in our guide pages.
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 August, 2006 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again -
I see several other photos in that section of the guide with the same marbling - definitely a match!
… Ashley Bradford, 23 August, 2006 - 1:08pm login or register to post comments

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