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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Desidae » Badumna » Badumna longinqua
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Reddish spider - Badumna longinqua
Copyright © 2009 R. Berg

Reddish spider - Badumna longinqua
Alameda County, California, USA
October 20, 2009
Size: ~0.1 in. (2.5 mm)
On radish leaf. Reddish brown in reality; color in photos varies. Not easily disturbed. It stayed within a small area, moving but not fleeing, while I turned the leaf to get different angles.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 20 October, 2009 - 7:39pm
Last updated 2 December, 2009 - 11:36am

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 2 December, 2009 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

I agree with Lynette
...possibly a Badumna juvenile. The colors and markings of spiders can change quite a bit from newborn to adult. I recognize the face in the 3rd photo...reminds me of your other B. longiqua.
… Mandy Howe, 20 October, 2009 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Well . . .
Is it known, for instance, that Badumna is reddish when young and turns dark brown? What about the minimal web that this spider walked on (fourth photo) like a tightrope? My first Badumna stood directly on a leaf.

Are these things clues? I don't know what counts as evidence. I don't have any spider books.
… R. Berg, 20 October, 2009 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

My first thought
is Badumna longiqua juvenile, mostly because of you past posts.
… Lynette Elliott, 20 October, 2009 - 8:22pm login or register to post comments

 
I didn't think of Badumna
because the color is so different and the dorsal abdominal markings are absent. This yard has a great variety of spiders, especially the small ones.
… R. Berg, 20 October, 2009 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

 
..and I'm not sure either
just a hunch.
… Lynette Elliott, 20 October, 2009 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

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