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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ghost Spiders (Anyphaenidae) » Anyphaena » Anyphaena californica
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Elongated spider - Anyphaena californica - male
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Elongated spider - Anyphaena californica - Male
Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
April 15, 2010
Size: ~ 5-10 mm
Found on the ground in our garage. I went back to try and collect this spider but it escaped my clutches. I don't think it's a tetragnathid or Tibellus, although the overall shape is a bit similar... I'm drawing a real blank - help! :)

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 15 April, 2010 - 11:09pm
Last updated 17 April, 2010 - 4:02pm

Moved
Moved from Ghost Spiders. Almost certainly the same species, and perhaps the same individual spider, that I collected two days later at the same location, here:

… Ken Schneider, 17 April, 2010 - 4:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 16 April, 2010 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

Male ghost spider?
Check others out here.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 April, 2010 - 11:25pm login or register to post comments

 
..
Yeah, that was my first thought (A. californica/pacifica?), and you've already collected a female specimen, haven't you?

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 15 April, 2010 - 11:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks -
to both of you! I didn't realize their abdomens could look so elongated. Yes, perhaps this is a potential mate for the female A. californica I collected from the same location just a couple of days ago - here:

… Ken Schneider, 16 April, 2010 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

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