Proceratium queen - Proceratium silaceum

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Well, most or all from that area could be found in rotting wood, and are also found in soil or forest leaf mold. However, the dark brown color and small size of this queen pegs her as P. silaceum.

… James C. Trager, 19 February, 2011 - 1:55pm

Thanks Dr. Trager!

… J. Anderson, 27 February, 2011 - 9:05am

JOdy -- Any success rearing t

JOdy -- Any success rearing this critter? My one attempt, some years ago, to rear P. californicum on spider eggs went pretty well, until I went away for a few days and died from desiccation.

… James C. Trager, 4 June, 2011 - 11:23am

I put a good number of spider

I put a good number of spider eggs in there, put a tissue with some water in as well, however I left her at my moms house, and when I came back from my dads she had sadly perished. While I haven't found any more silaceum queens, I have found a good number of other Proceratium queens, appearing to be in two species (I'll post pics soon). These queens seem to be doing well, no workers yet though. A really neat find today (I'm hesitant to tell you as I'm not quite positive yet) was an Amblyopone. It looked like pallipes, except the mandibles seemed longer and I couldn't see the teeth on the sides of the head. Definitely not trigonignatha though, as the mandibles were seemingly even thinner than pallipes. I'll post pics of that soon as well..

… J. Anderson, 4 June, 2011 - 3:37pm

ignore my earlier comment abo

ignore my earlier comment about the amblyopone; I'm fairly sure it's just pallipes now, but I'll still post pics of it..

… J. Anderson, 4 June, 2011 - 3:58pm

hmmmm... it seems as if P sil

hmmmm... it seems as if P silaceum might be the only one in my area that nests in fallen logs...

… J. Anderson, 19 February, 2011 - 7:15am