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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Araneus bispinosus
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Male orb weaver - Araneus bispinosus - male
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Male orb weaver - Araneus bispinosus - Male
Stulsaft Park, Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
June 5, 2010
Size: 4 mm
I beat this adult male orb weaver from a Toyon shrub. Looks like an Araneus sp. to me, but I'd love to have the opinion of our orb weaver experts! :) I'm having trouble finding a palp match right now, but should be able to get this to species eventually.

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 13 June, 2010 - 5:30pm
Last updated 13 June, 2010 - 9:05pm

Specimen -
KRS-2010-36
… Ken Schneider, 22 June, 2013 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Orb Weavers. Good call! I just checked under the scope and it's a virtually perfect match to fig. 96 in the 1973 Levi revision. I placed a link to this paper on our genus and species info. pages.
… Ken Schneider, 13 June, 2010 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Congrats to you both -- good
Congrats to you both -- good work.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 14 June, 2010 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

Yes, certainly looks to be Araneus
At that size one of the small ones. And near the coast, we wonder if this isn't our first bispinosus? Let's see what Lynette says. Levi says "Numerous collections indicate that the animals were collected by sweeping chaparral, coastal sage, or coastal sage-oak woodland."
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2010 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Good call
A great addition to the guide.
… Lynette Elliott, 14 June, 2010 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

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