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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Long-jawed Orb Weavers (Tetragnathidae) » Longjawed Orbweavers (Tetragnatha) » long, thin, reddish gold, light fishbone pattern (Tetragnatha long, thin, reddish gold, light fishbone pattern)
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Hanging spider - Tetragnatha
Copyright © 2007 Steve Scott

Hanging spider - Tetragnatha
Fairfield - Forest Preserve, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
April 17, 2007
Found in second growth forest just hanging from a single thread in the middle of "nowhere" - by which I mean there appeared to be nothing to support the thread! Must have been a cross thread betweeen trees somewhere.

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Contributed by Steve Scott on 19 April, 2007 - 10:57am
Last updated 16 August, 2018 - 9:32pm

Moved
Moved from Longjawed Orbweavers.
… john and jane balaban, 19 July, 2011 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

This spider
looks like belong to genus Tetragnatha . There is a group of crane flies in the genus Styringomyia that look very much like this group of spiders when in their rest posture. We don't have this group crane flies in USA, but they are in South American and the Old World. - Chen
… Chen Young, 20 April, 2007 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Chen. The mimicry in nature is intriguing.
… Steve Scott, 20 April, 2007 - 12:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Very
cool!
See here for jumping spider mimicry.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 28 April, 2007 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

 
:)
Amazing the patterns we see.
… Steve Scott, 28 April, 2007 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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