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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Robber Spiders (Argyrodes)
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5 Spiders 1 Web - Argyrodes - female
Copyright © 2013 Ungoliant

5 Spiders 1 Web - Argyrodes - Female
Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA
September 27, 2013
All five of these spiders were living in a single Nephila clavipes web! The female Leucauge venusta actually built a web within the web.

I know what the other spiders are. I am trying to confirm the identity of the dewdrop spider. Based on Gaddy's Spiders of the Carolinas and on BugGuide photos, I think this is a female Argyrodes nephilae. The field guide describes this as A. nephilae. BugGuide's Argyrodes page states that this species is only found in Florida, so it's possible that the field guide is wrong, but the range data documents finds in Georgia and Mississippi.

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Contributed by Ungoliant on 27 September, 2013 - 5:05pm
Last updated 20 February, 2015 - 8:07am

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… Lynette Elliott, 20 February, 2015 - 8:07am login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 22 November, 2013 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

Strange view
Is this a ventral or dorsal? I thought it looked like the dorsal of the carapace, but now I'm not so sure.
… Lynette Elliott, 28 September, 2013 - 7:50am login or register to post comments

 
Ventral?
I'm not 100% sure either. I was going to say ventral, but then the one that is definitely a ventral (#4) looks like it has more pale green on it.

Shouldn't the abdomen and the legs normally be pointed in opposite directions? That makes me think ventral.
… Ungoliant, 28 September, 2013 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Ventral
Pretty sure this is ventral. The coxae are visible, and what at first glance looked like the eye cluster looks more like the labium/endites to me now.

This and #4 also show the same pattern at the back, but in #2 the look of the patterns at the front and back a bit different. So I think they must be showing the same parts of the spider.

My guess about the green is that it's actually chromatic aberration from the lens.
… Kyron Basu, 29 September, 2013 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

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