Spider - Anyphaena fraterna

Moved

Moved from Ghost Spiders. Nice! Thanks to your palp shot and the ventral image which clearly showed the projections on the leg coxae (little hooks and things at the bases of the legs that were visible in the larger version of the pic that's available to editors), it pegs him as Anyphaena fraterna. First verified male for BugGuide!

Oh, and it's not important since anyone that will be identifying them can flip the image themselves, but for ease of viewing pedipalps, diagrams in literature are usually of the spider's left palp and are oriented in a vertical fashion (like this — your spider is actually figure 52 there), so if you post more palp shots in the future, just a casual FYI. =)

… Mandy Howe, 23 February, 2014 - 5:28pm

I found another one

it was a couple days away from final molt, I posted a series with the penultimate and adult with some better photos.

… John Rosenfeld, 25 February, 2014 - 5:01pm

Excellent

Great set! I added some of your shots to the info page as representative male images. It's great to have both genders represented here now!

… Mandy Howe, 25 February, 2014 - 10:18pm

Thanks!

I wish I could have gotten better photos of this guy. I will follow the palp protocol in the future.:)

… John Rosenfeld, 23 February, 2014 - 5:50pm

You're welcome! And these photos are really great! Getting dorsal and ventral AND microscope shots adds tons of value to the Guide! I did like your original full ventral image, since it showed all of the leg coxae (there are projections on the rear three). =)

… Mandy Howe, 23 February, 2014 - 7:21pm

Oops

just forgot to tag the ventral when rearranging. Fixed that and added a crop of the three projections.

… John Rosenfeld, 23 February, 2014 - 7:48pm

Perfect

Thanks!

… Mandy Howe, 23 February, 2014 - 8:04pm

Moved

Moved from Spiders.

… John Rosenfeld, 21 February, 2014 - 9:07pm

Looks to be

Anyphaenidae

… john and jane balaban, 21 February, 2014 - 6:35pm

Interesting

I'll get some better photos, it is kind of fast and pretty good at climbing out of the glass pan I've been using to photograph these spiders in. Thanks guys!

… John Rosenfeld, 21 February, 2014 - 6:48pm