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male spider - Metellina segmentata - male

male spider - Metellina segmentata - Male
Puyallup, Clark's Creek Park, Pierce County, Washington, USA
September 19, 2009

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male spider - Metellina segmentata - male male spider - Metellina segmentata - male

Moved
Moved from Metellina. Rod Crawford added:
"I would say both sexes were segmentata. The shortness of the palp
patella makes me think of M. mimetoides, but that would have distinct
abdominal humps. Definitely not curtisi."

Here is Roberts' drawing of t
Here is Roberts' drawing of the pedipalp for M. segmentata:
http://www.araneae.unibe.ch/Bestimmung/Familienschluessel/tetragnathidae/metellina/r-139-1.gif

(Don't forget that in your image you are viewing one palp superimposed on the other.)

And here are the other drawings for Metellina (European distribution):
http://www.araneae.unibe.ch/Bestimmung/Familienschluessel/tetragnathidae/metellina/Metellina_gesamt.htm

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