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spider Orb-weaving - Araneus nordmanni

spider Orb-weaving - Araneus nordmanni
Rang 8 St.Joseph, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada
August 18, 2009

Moved
Moved from Spiders. I agree with the Balabans. It does seem to be nordmanni. Karl Hillig's images have never been moved to species, though I still think they may be correct. If you look at his image you'll see that the folium is more solid instead of broken like nordmanni. This also matches the drawings in The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 23(1).

I see that spiders are not al
I see that spiders are not always easy to ID starting this year I will be collecting them and probably donating to The New Brunswick Museum
the problem is that there no spider specialist in NB they have some spiders in the museum but collection small
No collection being done I will start doing the Northern Part of NB
in sweeping for moth larva and beetle collecting notice that we get quit a bit of different spider that we just return back maybe a few kept would produce new one

 
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John (Alberta) might be able to help you. (You're welcome to send specimens to Germany (to me), but that involves a slight bit more effort.)

We read the book twice and still think this is nordmanni
The descriptions of the other two don't seem to match. Let's see what Lynette thinks.

 
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Karl Hillig has some images in BG of A. washingtoni...


But I don't know how they were determined. A. washingtoni is a much smaller species, I believe (6 mm vs. 10-12?). Did we ever get a size on this specimen? A. washingtoni also seems(?) to have more pronounced shoulders.

We would also have suggested nordmanni,
but Lynette thought that a recent one might be washingtoni and we have some similar images from John Sloan under corticarius, so we'll have to hit the books seriously on this one.

 
nordmani,washingtoni record o
nordmani,washingtoni record of these within 30 miles of these picture
but corticarius no record closer then 400 miles that would be a good record for this county not much info on NB spider

Araneus
You've photographed this species before, as I recall. My first thought was Araneus nordmanni, but let's see what the others think.

Perhaps you could try for a ventral view.

BTW, what is "Rang 8"? (In German it would be something like 'Level 8')

 
The road that I have my woodl
The road that I have my woodlots as no name except when they divided the land to give to settlers they call them rang 8 ,6 etc that like each row of lots the road call row 1 ,2 etc they call rang(french) On Rang 8 lots were given during the 1930"s hard time but you need to add parish or town name with these because they every were in Northern NB but most renamed

 
I did take a ventral yiew of
I did take a ventral view of one other type and will try from now on to do that since in books it seem to be an id factor

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