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Agelenopsis sp. - Agelenopsis oregonensis - male
Copyright © 2012 Kyron Basu

Agelenopsis sp. - Agelenopsis oregonensis - Male
Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
August 5, 2012
Size: ~10mm body length
Found prowling on the side of the house. There are lots of Agelenopsis in and around the yard, but this is the first adult I've seen this year.

This guy was fast! He almost got away from me a couple of times. Thankfully, when he came to a stop, he usually stayed that way for at least several seconds.

Note: size excludes palps and spinnerets.

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Contributed by Kyron Basu on 5 August, 2012 - 3:40pm
Last updated 10 August, 2012 - 2:37pm

From Rod Crawford
...appears to be A. oregonensis.

Moved from Spiders.

Nice find. I just got our first female the other day.
… Lynette Elliott, 10 August, 2012 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Yay
I'd really been hoping for A. oregonensis because of that!
… Kyron Basu, 10 August, 2012 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

A. utahana?
I don't know anything about comparing palps yet, but the ventral image looks pretty close to the one for A. utahana on this page:
http://scienceinfuse.org/?page_id=984

From side-view, it also resembles Tom Murray's image here:


My angles are slightly different though, so that could be throwing things off. I also don't know what the palps for some of the other species around here look like.
… Kyron Basu, 7 August, 2012 - 4:03pm login or register to post comments

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