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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Enoplognatha » Enoplognatha caricis
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spider - Enoplognatha caricis
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

spider - Enoplognatha caricis
Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 13, 2012
Size: 6mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 13 May, 2012 - 10:08pm
Last updated 15 October, 2012 - 4:34pm

Locality
Tom, what was the habitat like and where/how did you collect this specimen?

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 16 October, 2012 - 3:37am login or register to post comments

 
Habitat
This was in the thin grass with sandy soil at a water pumping station where Dick Walton took me to find some jumping spiders.
… tom murray, 16 October, 2012 - 5:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Steatoda borealis. Cool.
… Brad Barnd, 15 October, 2012 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Gosh dang it ...
I was right in the middle of guessing that! =] Nice one.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 October, 2012 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

A very interesting specimen..
A very interesting specimen... although you can't see it here, it has a folium (leaf-like pattern on the dorsum). So, even though you can see just a bit of a longitudinal white line anterior on the dorsum, it's not in the genus Steatoda.

Wanna take a guess? :-) Here's a hint: Levi 1957a has it (and new BG species).

More photos here:

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 15 October, 2012 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
That looks like a good choice. Steatoda borealis are common around here.
… tom murray, 13 September, 2012 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

Steatoda borealis?
It looks like Steatoda borealis to me.
… Lynette Elliott, 13 September, 2012 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

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