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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Sheetweb Spiders (Linyphiinae) » Tennesseellum » Tennesseellum formica
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Tennesseellum formica (Emerton, 1882) - Tennesseellum formica - male
Copyright © 2009 Kevin Pfeiffer

Tennesseellum formica (Emerton, 1882) - Tennesseellum formica - Male
Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
June 23, 2009
Size: 2 mm
Thanks to a tip from Joey Slowik, I now have good reason to believe that this is Tennesseellum formica / Tennesseellum formicum. Kaston (1972) writes: "Male palp with femur armed with teeth" and his drawing of the female also shows a similar enlongated, ovoid carapace. Will confirm pedipalp when back home.

Specimen: kmp-06358

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Tennesseellum formica (Emerton, 1882) - Tennesseellum formica - male Tennesseellum formica (Emerton, 1882) - Tennesseellum formica - male
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Contributed by Kevin Pfeiffer on 24 June, 2009 - 5:56pm
Last updated 21 June, 2012 - 4:11am

Another specimen
Check out my more ant-like specimen of this species:

… Joe Lapp, 20 June, 2012 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, nice; I just updated thi
Yes, nice; I just updated this record.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 June, 2012 - 4:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 25 June, 2009 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Nice find, Kevin.
Did you get this with a sweep net?
… John Sloan, 25 June, 2009 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Heh, heh... you mean I was su
Heh, heh... you mean I was supposed to take notes? ;-) Yes, sweeping, I think. I don't think I collected anything on the ground -- was too overgrown.

There is a grass field and wash in the development where my mother lives that has been allowed to go wild -- sort of a mini-riparian habitat.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 25 June, 2009 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

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