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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ghost Spiders (Anyphaenidae)
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1/2 inch tan spider brown stripes down sides of head
Copyright © 2011 Lisa

1/2 inch tan spider brown stripes down sides of head
Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 25, 2011
Size: 1/2 inch
I apologize that the images are fuzzy, I had no idea I'd found a new (to me) spider! I dug through the bugguide pages and the only one that seems close is the Zora. It's not that though (I think) because of the eye stripes. I've not seen a spider before with these dark brown stripes down the sides of its head. The poor little guy only has 7 legs. I'll go see if I can find him again to get better images. He was on the wall of my bathroom and was fairly quick as he ran along it. He then fell (gently) to the floor which is where I got my images.

UPDATE: Oh!! Even more digging through the extra photos and I might have found it! Could it be a ghost spider / hibana gracilis? It doesn't look like the main ones in the main photo set but it does look like this extra photo which is taken in Massachusetts, like mine -
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Contributed by Lisa on 25 September, 2011 - 11:49pm
Last updated 26 September, 2011 - 8:24am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

From frassed image:
Yep, nice work

This is the 2nd one mentioned in your comments - a "ghost spider" in the family Anyphaenidae. I haven't spent time on this family in a long time actually, so I can't remember at this moment if it would be Anyphaena or Hibana, but it's definitely one of those two genera. No way to tell the species without a microscope exam of the reproductive organs, though (and I don't think this one is mature yet, anyways).

… Mandy Howe, 26 September, 2011 - 12:46am
… Lynette Elliott, 26 September, 2011 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

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