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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Trashline Orbweavers (Cyclosa) » Cyclosa walckenaeri
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...A featherlegged orbweaver? - Cyclosa walckenaeri
Copyright © 2009 astrosa

...A featherlegged orbweaver? - Cyclosa walckenaeri
Miami, Dade County, Florida, USA
April 12, 2009
I'm not really sure. This spider strings its eggsacs and prey in a line like a Featherlegged Orbweaver does, but it doesn't look the same.

Interestingly, one of these vibrated its web furiously like a Garden Orbweaver when I came a little too close.

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Contributed by astrosa on 27 April, 2009 - 6:19pm
Last updated 12 April, 2010 - 6:28pm

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… Lynette Elliott, 12 April, 2010 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

Lynette, what do you think of Cyclosa walckenaeri
Levi, 1977, page 65.
… john and jane balaban, 12 April, 2010 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

 
I have Levi, 1999, pg. 360
From the range maps this Florida specimen must be walckenaeri. If they had been in overlapping regions the guide says that walckenaeri need to be distinguished from berlandi by epigyne. Thankfully, it appears the two may only overlap in southern Texas.
… Lynette Elliott, 12 April, 2010 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

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