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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Hahniidae » Neoantistea
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Spider - Neoantistea
Copyright © 2015 Alice Abela

Spider - Neoantistea
Oso Flaco Dunes, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
January 17, 2015
Size: ~4mm legspan
Found in sandy coastal foredune habitat. Looks like a Mygalomorph? Much smaller than even a hatchling Aptostichus sp.

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Contributed by Alice Abela on 17 January, 2015 - 10:32pm
Last updated 12 February, 2015 - 10:46pm

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Moved from Spiders.
… Alice Abela, 12 February, 2015 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

Neoantistea magna
Ok - so here's my final guess. I think Neoantistea magna based on location, eye arrangement and spinnerets. Compare your spider to these by Sean McCann.
… Lynette Elliott, 26 January, 2015 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

 
Older/larger
Not sure if these will help:
… Alice Abela, 1 February, 2015 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Nice find. Do you have better images of the spinnerets? The only Neoantistea I've seen to this point have had very dark carapaces. Other than that I don't know what else to offer.
… Lynette Elliott, 20 January, 2015 - 7:00am login or register to post comments

 
Second shot...
I added a second shot where the focus on the spinnerets is sharper. Maybe the dark color will come with maturity or isn't characteristic of this particular species?
… Alice Abela, 20 January, 2015 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Yep, that's very likely.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 January, 2015 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

Maybe...
Maybe something in the Hahniidae, looks similar to some of the Neoantistea spp.
… Alice Abela, 18 January, 2015 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Digging further...
In Opell & Beatty's "The Nearctic Hanniidae": https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_50617_thenearctichahniidaearachnidaa1863/thenearctichahniidaearachnidaa1863#page/n21/mode/2up, Neoantistea santana is the closest in terms of range and the type specimens were collected in beach habitat. I don't have any photos of the reproductive structures needed to cinch the ID and 5 chevrons on the abdomen seems a bit of a stretch. But, the eye proportions seem to match.
… Alice Abela, 18 January, 2015 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Stumped...
I'm really not sure what this spider is. The spinnerets are very long and that combined with the clustered eyes have me thinking some kind of mygalomorph?
… Alice Abela, 18 January, 2015 - 12:09am login or register to post comments

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