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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Eustala » Humpbacked Orbweaver (Eustala anastera)
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Orb weaver - Eustala anastera
Copyright © 2008 john and jane balaban

Orb weaver - Eustala anastera
Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 20, 2008
Size: ~7mm
A small orb weaver with prey. We don't recognize this one.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 June, 2008 - 9:44pm
Last updated 6 January, 2013 - 11:12am

Moved
Moved from Eustala. ID based on range, pattern (esp. two dark posterior spots) & shape of abdomen.
… Lynette Elliott, 6 January, 2013 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Orb Weavers.
… Lynette Elliott, 8 October, 2009 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

Thanks, Kevin.
We didn't get a Larinioides feel when we saw and photographed it, so we were thinking it might be an Araneus we didn't know (there are a gracious plenty of those!) or maybe Eustala or one of those -zygia or -zygiella guys. We'll try to keep an eye out for it as it grows. There are just too many orb weavers - and so variable!
… john and jane balaban, 21 June, 2008 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

Possibly [i]Larinioides sclop
Possibly Larinioides sclopetarius?

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 June, 2008 - 7:19am login or register to post comments

 
In retrospect, I'm not so sur
In retrospect, I'm not so sure that I want to offer an opinion here... :-) (Older and wiser?)
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 8 October, 2009 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

 
:0)
As you know the spiders are hard to figure out because there are SO many of them that have similar patterns. I would never have pegged this as Eustala if John B. hadn't emailed me with that suggestion. Then after looking at it, it seems so obvious. :) Sometimes I feel quite overwhelmed and get that "the more you know.. the more you realize you don't know" feeling. But I figure as long as we keep working on them we can always fix our mistakes as we go.
… Lynette Elliott, 8 October, 2009 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

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