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Spider - Pisaurina brevipes
Copyright © 2017 Erik Attaway

Spider - Pisaurina brevipes
Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve, Will County, Illinois, USA
September 4, 2017
Contributed by Erik Attaway on 4 September, 2017 - 6:58pm
Last updated 17 November, 2020 - 11:50pm

Moved
Moved from Nursery Web Spiders.

I agree with Chad - this does not have the wavy borders on the abdominal stripe expected of the P. mira patterning variant that would most closely match this spider.
… chuuuuung, 17 November, 2020 - 11:50pm

Looks to be
Pisaurina mira
… john and jane balaban, 4 September, 2017 - 7:37pm

 
Hmm...
This one might actually be P. brevipes with the relatively straight lines on the abdomen.
… Chad Heins, 26 September, 2017 - 9:28am

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