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Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - female

Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - Female
Shelby Park, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
May 23, 2009
Size: 8-9mm
Found another female Thiodina puerpera in the same park. This time I got pictures of the epigyne to definitively ID the species.

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Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - female Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - female Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - female Female Thiodina puerpera - Colonus puerperus - female

my opinion Colonus sylvanus (Thiodina sylvana)
but somewhat atypical, the transverse epigynal ridge seems to crosses the spermatheca anteriorly (as usually in T.puerpera)
See 'Genitalic variation' for Thiodina sylvana versus 'Diagnosis.— Thiodina puerpera' (and figure 9 versus figure 10) on (1)
Plus, description for T.sylvana "Abdomen yellowish, with a split central streak and lateral streaks"

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