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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ghost Spiders (Anyphaenidae) » Anyphaena » Anyphaena fraterna
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Anyphaenid - Anyphaena fraterna - Anyphaena fraterna - female
Copyright © 2009 Kevin Pfeiffer

Anyphaenid - Anyphaena fraterna - Anyphaena fraterna - Female
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 26, 2008
Size: 5.3 mm
Found in our wonderful Durham apartment; I originally assumed that this was A. celer. Platnick (1974) writes: "a distinctive species easily recognized ... by the female's epigynal plate being wider anteriorly than posteriorly". Bryant (1931) writes that the species is "distinctly spotted".

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Anyphaenid - Anyphaena fraterna - Anyphaena fraterna - female Anyphaenid - ventral aspect - Anyphaena fraterna - female Anyphaenid - epigyne - Anyphaena fraterna - female Anyphaenid - face - Anyphaena fraterna - female
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Contributed by Kevin Pfeiffer on 26 July, 2009 - 8:23am

Moved
GEEZ! I should obviously finish my coffee before attempting any editing work! Great job on the ID.
… Lynette Elliott, 26 July, 2009 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

 
That was fast! Only problem (
That was fast! Only problem (my side) was that I got the year wrong; as my wife pointed out, we weren't in Durham in 2007. :-\
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 26 July, 2009 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ghost Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 26 July, 2009 - 8:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ghost Spiders. Great!
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