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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Araneus » Araneus miniatus
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Araneus Spider With Ichneumon? Parasite - Araneus miniatus - male
Copyright © 2011 Jon Hart

Araneus Spider With Ichneumon? Parasite - Araneus miniatus - Male
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
February 24, 2011
Size: 3 to 4 mm
Found on unknown bush in heavily forested area. I got the spider down to genus, but the exact species is unfamiliar to me. As to the parasite, this is a similar situation as another series I shot back in late December of a Theridion with the same parasite. See:
The spider appears to be male.

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Contributed by Jon Hart on 27 February, 2011 - 10:50am
Last updated 2 April, 2016 - 5:55pm

Moved
Moved from Araneus.
… john and jane balaban, 2 April, 2016 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

Choices are
miniatus, partitus & calusa. Of those partitus says the male has slight humps... and I'd say these are more than slight. A. calusa should have red marks/spots and these look black to me. That leaves miniatus. The male miniatus is supposed to have a shallow longitudinal groove on the carapace which I think I can see the second image when looking at it in full size.
… Lynette Elliott, 30 May, 2011 - 11:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jon Hart, 28 February, 2011 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

We always get these confused with Mimetus,
but given it's Araneus, we would agree with Lynette on miniatus.
… john and jane balaban, 27 February, 2011 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

Araneus miniatus
is my guess. Juvenile male.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 February, 2011 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

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