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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Argyrodes/Faiditus/Neospintharus/Rhomphaea
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Small spider with egg case of her back?
Copyright © 2013 Edelberto Cabrera

Small spider with egg case of her back?
West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
November 18, 2013
Size: Approximately 5mm long
It seems to carry an egg case on her back, but ocasionally it went to the mouth of the structure seen here and did something.
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Contributed by Edelberto Cabrera on 25 November, 2013 - 4:27pm
Last updated 27 July, 2018 - 1:51pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 26 November, 2013 - 5:58am login or register to post comments

Cobweb spider (Theridiidae)
Subfamily Argyrodinae.
… Charley Eiseman, 25 November, 2013 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

The structure is actually the egg case
and all the rest is the spider. It has a unique body shape!
… john and jane balaban, 25 November, 2013 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Coneheads
:)
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 25 November, 2013 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

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