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Metacyrba taeniola taeniola - Metacyrba taeniola

Metacyrba taeniola taeniola - Metacyrba taeniola
Willingboro, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
September 6, 2008
This little one (maybe 4 mm guess?) was wandering around my mother's ceiling. I convinced her to ignore it until it went somewhere else. Maybe Metacyrba ???

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Metacyrba taeniola taeniola - Metacyrba taeniola Metacyrba taeniola taeniola - Metacyrba taeniola

Moved
Moved from Metacyrba.

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.

Good for you
and the harmless spider!

Sure looks like Metacyrba to me.

 
Thanks again
When you explain to people that spiders are going to eat the bugs in their house like free exterminators, and the choice is "all those bugs" or a spider, suddenly the spider is OK.

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