Small male spider - S.K.4 - Lepthyphantes

Moved

Moved from Spiders.

… John Sloan, 21 June, 2012 - 3:38am

Thank you John,

that's close enough for me.

… Steve McKechnie, 21 June, 2012 - 11:03am

The palp looks good, and I think I might get this to species one of these days. I need some more of the literature on this genus first.

… John Sloan, 21 June, 2012 - 12:38pm

Ventral image of Lepthyphantes tenuis, legs not banded, spines close, I keep guessing.
http://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p/Picture/r/view/s/Lepthyphantes+tenuis+female

… Steve McKechnie, 23 April, 2012 - 3:54pm

Active

Sheet web built, active when a bug drops in day or night.
I think its mature ID will be Neriene clathrata.

… Steve McKechnie, 19 February, 2012 - 8:42pm

Captured

Replaced ventral image with dorsal. 2 mm. is accurate.

… Steve McKechnie, 10 February, 2012 - 3:02pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Lynette Elliott, 10 February, 2012 - 9:19am

Looks like a subadult male. It might be interesting to raise this one to maturity and see what species it turns out to be.

… John Sloan, 10 February, 2012 - 3:27am

Intermediate

Moulted 28 Feb. Darker with age. There aren't many ventral images of males to compare this with.

… Steve McKechnie, 4 March, 2012 - 1:53pm

I might be able to identify your spider if I could see it under a microscope.

Here's an adult male Neriene clathrata for comparision:

… John Sloan, 4 March, 2012 - 2:33pm

One of these days.

Now that I've found a good source of food and learned how to build a compfortable terrarium, I'll stop calling him Herb and plan on sending him your way, one of these months. The sod he may have come out of is in a warm pail with growing grass and at least two little black females in it, one with an egg sac.
A near perfect visual match at -
http://richardunord6.skynetblogs.be/tag/neriene

… Steve McKechnie, 4 March, 2012 - 7:28pm

Do you have any pictures of the female? Maybe you could send her along with this male? :)

… John Sloan, 5 March, 2012 - 12:35am

Yes, but no

Pictures that are not enough for ID.

… Steve McKechnie, 5 March, 2012 - 8:20am

Females not related

Shorter legs, larger abdomen, etc

… Steve McKechnie, 7 April, 2012 - 2:30am