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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)
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Spinning web spider - Tetragnatha
Copyright © 2019 w9k4l2

Spinning web spider - Tetragnatha
Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA
April 26, 2019
Size: tiny as a fingernail
This lovely lady or gentleman was spinning a web, but a very long and far away one. Not a circular type. It has what looks like a tiny hole in the back of it's abdomen. What is that? Male or female?

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Contributed by w9k4l2 on 26 April, 2019 - 3:00pm
Last updated 29 April, 2019 - 8:29am

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… Chad Heins, 29 April, 2019 - 8:29am login or register to post comments

Looks like a Long-Jawed Orbweaver
genus Tetragnatha
… john and jane balaban, 26 April, 2019 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

 
hole in abdomen
I looked up the Long-Jawed Orbweaver and I believe you are correct. I am wondering if the hole in the upper part of the abdomen is where a male might put his sperm? If this is a female. Which I am guess it is.
… w9k4l2, 27 April, 2019 - 3:41pm login or register to post comments

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