Adult female - Oecobius amboseli

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Adult female - Oecobius amboseli -

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 12, 2015
Size: ~3mm body length

Found on a wall in one of the bathrooms at my school. It doesn't look that close to anything in Shear 1970. However, the epigynum seems to be a rather fine match for the originally African Oecobius amboseli as here: http://www.araneae.unibe.ch/data/5015/Oecobius_amboseli

I am really quite out of practice with this and will email Rod Crawford!

As always, photographed alive and unharmed.

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Adult female - Oecobius amboseli - female

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Contributed by Kyron Basu on 13 June, 2015 - 12:29am
Last updated 16 June, 2015 - 1:02am

ID confirmed by Rod Crawford

"It looks right to me. This is rather amazing, since nothing but O. navus has up to now been found in Washington. I will have to keep my eye open for this!"

The building where this was found is a music school, and I believe there is an occasional traffic of instruments flowing to and from Europe. Maybe the species came on board a piano or something!

Moved from Spiders.

… Kyron Basu, 16 June, 2015 - 1:02am

Cute! Nice find also.

Great to hear from you again.

… Lisa I., 16 June, 2015 - 1:28am

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Thanks, and likewise! :)

… Kyron Basu, 16 June, 2015 - 1:48am

Certainly does look like O. amboseli

Habitus also matches others on the web.

… John Rosenfeld, 14 June, 2015 - 3:18pm

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