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Philodromus rodecki? - Philodromus rodecki - female

Philodromus rodecki? - Philodromus rodecki - Female
Granite Springs Road, El Dorado County, California, USA
June 11, 2013
Size: 4.5 mm
I beat this adult female spider from a pine tree. I thought in the field that this was going to be P. rufus, but it seems to be Philodromus rodecki, matching both the description and epigynum illustrations in Schick and in Dondale and Redner pretty well. The median septum appears to narrow a bit more abruptly anteriorly than some of the illustrations, but I think this may be the best fit. P. rufus appears to be ruled out by the epigynum, which is very different. Would love to hear comments from anyone with experience with this species.

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Rod Crawford -
was kind enough to take a look at these images for me and we discussed them a bit - although the overall coloration is a match to a female P. rodecki he collected recently and the spermathecae are at least close, he's concerned that the epigynum appears to lack the triangular septum that should be present with this species.

I'm a bit on the fence - I believe that I'll leave the images here for now, as most features match this species best and there isn't another better candidate species right now. If anyone feels strongly about it, I won't object to moving this series back to the genus page. I'll see if I can find an adult male next time!

 
Sounds good to me
As long as the note is here explaining I think it's a good placeholder.

Moved
Moved from Running Crab Spiders. John Sloan kindly looked at these images and thinks the epigynum matches quite well to this species, although this is not a genus he works with often and of course it's always best to have the specimen in hand...

 
Philodromus rodecki
Great!

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