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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Mangora » Tuftlegged Orbweaver (Mangora placida)
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Spider - Mangora placida
Copyright © 2008 Sam Houston

Spider - Mangora placida
Sand Springs, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
April 20, 2008
Size: 4.76mm (3/16")
Also included web pics. Please help with ID.

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Contributed by Sam Houston on 20 April, 2008 - 8:22pm
Last updated 22 April, 2008 - 3:54pm

Check out the genus
Mangora, specifically placida
… john and jane balaban, 20 April, 2008 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

web pics?
Hi, Sam--

What do you mean by "also included web pics"? Is your spider standing on her head? :-)
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 20 April, 2008 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
....
I don't know. It was at a weird angle.
By web pics I mean pictures of the spider's web.
… Sam Houston, 20 April, 2008 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

 
[Hitting head]
Ah, _web_ pictures, not "WWW". Now I understand.

And I see the Balabans have already nailed it -- Mangora, looking at the Guide, that explains the "missing" head. See http://bugguide.net/node/view/98264/bgimage.

-Kevin

(Actually, I think I had some small Mangora on my Berlin balcony last year, on a lavender plant... I'll go take a look in Picasa.)
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 20 April, 2008 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

 
And here's a European cousin
Here is M. acalypha, not in the Guide, so apparently not found in NA:http://spinnen-forum.de/artikel/usergal/kevin_pfeiffer/P1010588.JPG

In German it's called the Streifenkreuzspinne; it's also found in GB, but I've not seen an English-language common name for it, yet.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 20 April, 2008 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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