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Bowl and Doily Spider - Frontinella huachuca - female

Bowl and Doily Spider - Frontinella huachuca - Female
Onion Saddle, Chiricahua Mountains, elev. 7,600 ft., Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 11, 2010
Insanely frustrating to try and image in the field, and it was evening with dimming light....Larger than F. communis, with deep red cephalothorax.

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Bowl and Doily Spider - Frontinella huachuca - female Bowl and Doily Spider - Frontinella huachuca - female

I'm sorry.
No, I did not collect it....I am just totally in a different mindset right now....The "manual" lists only the two species so I went by process of elimination.

 
Sounds good to me. -K
Sounds good to me.

-K

Nice! It certainly has that F
Nice! It certainly has that Frontinella look. But what about Fr. tibialis (F. lepidula in Gertsch & Davis, 1946)? They describe the carapace of F. tibialis as "bright orange brown", whereas F. huachua's is "pale yellowish brown".

I suppose that distribution rules this out -- Ibarra-Núñez et al., 2001, give only Mexico for its distribution (Veracruz, Tabasco, Guerrero,and Chiapas).

Did you collect a specimen, by any chance?

-Kevin

Been there
.... :0).

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