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Photo#339527
spider - Steatoda

spider - Steatoda
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
September 22, 2009
This small spider has at least 3 indentations on each side of the abdominal dorsal midline,
in this photo only clearly visible on the right side.

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spider - Steatoda spider - Steatoda

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> [i]This small spider has at
> This small spider has at least 3 indentations on each side of the abdominal dorsal midline,
in this photo only clearly visible on the right side.


These are visible in quite a few spiders. They are points where muscles are attached inside the abdomen.

This also reminds us of the image
in Weber (1) of Hypsosinga variabilis, pg 84, (for what that's worth!)

 
Yes, I tend to forget about H
Yes, I tend to forget about Hypsosinga, but in this example you can see the theridiid "comb" on the last leg pair (IV).

-K

 
and
Hypsosinga pygmaea(synonym) doesn't have the white in the front from what I can see. Look at the image on the Nearctic Spider Database here. Then look at the image in our guide. They don't look the same to me??? I looked it up on the World Spider Catalog they H. variabilis is a synonym of the current name H. pygmaea.

Isn't that Steatoda borealis
Isn't that Steatoda borealis (or else S. bipunctata)?

-K

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