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Megalepthyphantes nebulosus
Photo#718116
Copyright © 2012
Steve McKechnie
Another Long legged Female spider -
Megalepthyphantes nebulosus
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Black Diamond, Foothills, Alberta, Canada
Size: Close to 4 mm.
Images of this individual:
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Contributed by
Steve McKechnie
on 27 October, 2012 - 1:05pm
Last updated 27 October, 2012 - 8:30pm
Moved
Moved from
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Steve McKechnie
, 27 October, 2012 - 8:30pm
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See female collected with this
spider for lateral and ventral images.
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Steve McKechnie
, 27 October, 2012 - 1:14pm
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Megalepthyphantes nebulosus?
This, the male, and the other female all look much like the M. nebulosus individuals you found before (albeit in a different province!):
Let's see what others think, though. Nice shots!
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Kyron Basu
, 27 October, 2012 - 1:59pm
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Sidebar. Handling live spiders.
Have you seen this link?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/377481
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Steve McKechnie
, 27 October, 2012 - 3:43pm
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Handling live spiders
Cool, didn't know about Mandy's technique! I was using a very thin stick in a similar fashion a little while ago, though with the spider restrained under some plastic.
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Kyron Basu
, 27 October, 2012 - 4:24pm
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Much alike
Habitat. Both in sheltered, cool and damp locations.
I compared B.D. to the male M. nebulosus first, just added a ventral image
http://bugguide.net/node/view/718159
So much similar but M. nebulosus abdominal pattern tighter and darker, ventral darker. Both are adults, two months apart.
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Steve McKechnie
, 27 October, 2012 - 3:36pm
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Pattern variation
I suspect the differences in the patterns are due to variation. There's a fair bit of it between the images we already have in the guide for M. nebulosus.
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Kyron Basu
, 27 October, 2012 - 4:20pm
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Variation all mine
Thank you for your time kyrontf.
Had I looked further then my images and read my notes, I would have seen what I missed last time.
Leptyphantes nebulosus
http://www.eurospiders.com/Leptyphantes_nebulosus.htm
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Steve McKechnie
, 27 October, 2012 - 8:28pm
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