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Photo#590657
spider - female

spider - Female
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 8, 2011
Size: ~2.4mm - body

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spider - female spider - female spider - female

Agyneta fabra?
Looking at Dupérré 2013(1), the pattern on this one matches the best to Agyneta fabra. It says that "females [of Agyneta fabra] can be distinguished from other Agyneta species by their abdominal pattern," but I figure I would just leave a note and see if others agree before moving. It would be our first female of that species.

 
I don't have access to the resource
but if the size, pattern and range match then I'd say it's a likely ID.

Moved
Moved from Spiders.

Hi Ilona, Are you interest
Hi Ilona,

Are you interested in saving any of these for closer inspection?

-Kevin

 
The problem I ran into with t
The problem I ran into with trying to save these tiny spiders was that they dried up overnight. The other problem I ran into was a matter of time and what insects I was going to concentrate on. I ended up raising caterpillars this summer which took up time with cleaning and collecting plant material for them. The spiders took a back seat to this. For the time being it looks like I'll probably just stick to taking photos of spiders. I have quite a large backlog of photos to go through yet. Finally finished trimming photos from the last three months this week and now I'm slowly adding them to Bugguide.

 
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That's easy enough -- just keep one small vial of strong vodka (or weak rubbing alchol) and drop these tiny ones in as you find them (just try to note a BG number if you can).

(Apologies in advance if I've already proposed this before -- I really should keep track of whom I've already 'propositioned' -- not everyone likes to be asked to do in spiders.) :-)

 
Doesn't hurt to ask. One of
Doesn't hurt to ask. One of these years I should get around to trying your suggestion.

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