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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Bolas Spiders (Mastophora)
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lattice orb weaver? - Mastophora
Copyright © 2009 J Obrist

lattice orb weaver? - Mastophora
Bruner's Grove, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
October 15, 2009
Size: 1 cm
Found in ripe grapes in vineyard.

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Contributed by J Obrist on 15 October, 2009 - 5:09pm
Last updated 8 November, 2009 - 7:44am

One of the key characters is the color of the femurs
and it looks as though all the femurs are dark in this specimen.
… john and jane balaban, 15 November, 2012 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

 
M. stowei?
range is right and legs are right, not so sure about the dorsal pattern.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 November, 2012 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Natalie Hernandez, 8 November, 2009 - 1:30am login or register to post comments

You can click on Edit
under the image and change the size from your original post.
Where did the other images go? We were expecting that you would tell us we could link them together, but they disappeared??
… john and jane balaban, 15 October, 2009 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

The shape makes us think of
Genus Mastophora - Bolas Spiders in the guide here. Great find! Can you get some more pics?
PS - looks to be a metric ruler - 1 cm?
… john and jane balaban, 15 October, 2009 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Sharp eyes (and not only for
Sharp eyes (and not only for the ruler).

For the record, Levi (1973) writes that A. thaddeus has a white transverse bar posterior to the epigyne, and behind that a black transverse bar.
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 16 October, 2009 - 7:28am login or register to post comments

 
Yes, metric. 10mm or 1 cm.
Yes, metric. 10mm or 1 cm.
… J Obrist, 15 October, 2009 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

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