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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders (Linyphiidae) » Sheetweb Spiders (Linyphiinae) » Megalepthyphantes » Megalepthyphantes nebulosus
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Another Long legged Female spider - Megalepthyphantes nebulosus - female
Copyright © 2012 Steve McKechnie

Another Long legged Female spider - Megalepthyphantes nebulosus - Female
Black Diamond, Foothills, Alberta, Canada
Size: Close to 4 mm.

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Another Long legged Female spider - Megalepthyphantes nebulosus - female Another Long legged Female spider - Megalepthyphantes nebulosus - female
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Contributed by Steve McKechnie on 27 October, 2012 - 1:05pm
Last updated 27 October, 2012 - 8:30pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Steve McKechnie, 27 October, 2012 - 8:30pm login or register to post comments

See female collected with this
spider for lateral and ventral images.
… Steve McKechnie, 27 October, 2012 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
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!
… Kyron Basu, 27 October, 2012 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Sidebar. Handling live spiders.
Have you seen this link? http://bugguide.net/node/view/377481
… Steve McKechnie, 27 October, 2012 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

 
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.
… Kyron Basu, 27 October, 2012 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

 
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.
… Steve McKechnie, 27 October, 2012 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

 
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.
… Kyron Basu, 27 October, 2012 - 4:20pm login or register to post comments

 
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
… Steve McKechnie, 27 October, 2012 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

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