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Species Metepeira pimungan - San Miguel Island Orbweaver

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)

Genus Metepeira

Species pimungan (San Miguel Island Orbweaver)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

The specific name is a noun in apposition after the Indian people who once lived on the Channel Islands - Piel, 2001

Identification

White eye region. White median ventral mark on abdomen flanked by shorter parallel thin lines on either side. Black sternum with white teardrop shaped mark on the posterior half. Legs mostly white with with bands on legs 3 & 4. Spinnerets flanked on each side by one white spot. (1)

Range

Endemic on San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Co., California (1)

Print References

(1) The Systematics of Neotropical Orb-weaving Spiders in the Genus Metepeira by William H. Piel.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 26 February, 2010 - 3:52pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, cheins, James Bailey
Last updated 4 February, 2023 - 8:16am

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