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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Neriene digna

Sheetweb Spider - Neriene digna - male black and white sheetweb spider - Neriene digna - female small black and white spider - Neriene digna - female Courtship and mating - Neriene digna - male - female Sheet Web Spider- Neriene digna - Neriene digna - male Sheet Web Spider? - Neriene digna - male Sheet Web Spider? - Neriene digna - male Ant mimic, sac spider? - Neriene digna - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)
Subfamily Linyphiinae (Sheetweb Spiders)
Genus Neriene
Species digna (Neriene digna)
Range
CA, OR, WA, AK, BC
Remarks
In this case it's the side view that's most diagnostic. The profile shape of the protruding epigynum that is the giveaway - not seen in either of the 2 other species found in the region. The dorsal and ventral abdomen coloration (in combination, not either separately) are also pretty characteristic.Rod Crawford 7/11/12
See Also
A few of the ones we've placed in Hypsosinga strongly resemble Neriene digna. However, it's a male Hypsosinga that resembles a female Neriene. See a male Hypsosinga then a female Neriene: