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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Gnaphosa » Gnaphosa parvula
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Adult Male - Gnaphosa parvula - male
Copyright © 2009 John Sloan

Adult Male - Gnaphosa parvula - Male
Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada
May 28, 2009
Size: BL = 8mm
Dorsal View

See female here:
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Contributed by John Sloan on 10 June, 2009 - 2:14am
Last updated 8 May, 2010 - 11:43pm

Moved
Moved from Gnaphosa.
… Lynette Elliott, 10 June, 2009 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Lynette
Thanks, Lynette, for creating the species page. :)
… John Sloan, 10 June, 2009 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

Great views of the pedipalps,
Great views of the pedipalps, John, but what is the lighting effect you are striving for here -- the moment of discovery? ;-)

-Kevin
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 10 June, 2009 - 2:51am login or register to post comments

 
Trying for
as much contrast/delineation between structures as I could bring out. My lights are neither very bright nor tightly focused, so if I light from the top everything appears flat, and there is a glare off the surface of the alcohol. So, I light from the sides.

Making do with cheap equipment.
… John Sloan, 10 June, 2009 - 3:11am login or register to post comments

 
No, sorry, I meant in the hab
No, sorry, I meant in the habitus images (looks like a mixture of daylight and artificial lighting) -- the large patch of white light on the background. The genital images are great, IMO. And in light of the scarcity of such images -- any and all are most welcome!

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 10 June, 2009 - 3:38am login or register to post comments

 
Okay, I gotcha. :)
Normally I have the spiders on a piece of white paper, inside a 2-litre casserole dish they can't climb out of, but this time I didn't put in the paper so there was a reflection off the glass from my flash. I also had a table lamp off to the side. Yeah, the glare from the background does wash out some detail. I'll be sure and put the paper down to prevent that for future subjects. :)
… John Sloan, 10 June, 2009 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

 
New BG species
And I almost forget -- a new species for BG!

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 10 June, 2009 - 6:34am login or register to post comments

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