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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cribellate Orb Weavers (Uloboridae) » Uloborus » Uloborus diversus
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tiny spider with dorsal protrusion on abdomen - Uloborus diversus
Copyright © 2016 junkyardsparkle

tiny spider with dorsal protrusion on abdomen - Uloborus diversus
Lake Isabella, Kern County, California, USA
April 18, 2016
Size: ~4mm body
working on a meal (ladybeetle larva) in a rosemary bush. Strange pointy dorsal protrusions on abdomen.

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Contributed by junkyardsparkle on 18 April, 2016 - 8:11pm
Last updated 16 December, 2023 - 3:56pm

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Moved from Cribellate Orb Weavers.
… john and jane balaban, 16 December, 2023 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 24 April, 2016 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

Difficult to ID with just a ventral image
but legs make us think Uloborus
… john and jane balaban, 18 April, 2016 - 11:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Added...
...a couple of better shots. I was pretty limited as far as what angles I could get without risking tearing its web apart by branch movement.
… junkyardsparkle, 20 April, 2016 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks, sorry...
...I have more shots on my camera, I'll add them when I don't have to do it with my phone. :)
… junkyardsparkle, 19 April, 2016 - 12:49am login or register to post comments

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