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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Platycryptus » Platycryptus undatus
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Spider BG417 - Platycryptus undatus
Copyright © 2007 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Spider BG417 - Platycryptus undatus
Baton Rouge, Brookhollow Drive, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
August 15, 2006
Size: body length 4.4 mm.
This emaciated creature showed up on my desk on August 15, 2006. I could not figure out what it was, so I fed and watered it until on Aug 27 I took the second photo. We then identified it as Platycryptus undatus. A reminder to me and perhaps others, that describing spider abdomens can be tricky business, as they are subject to much variation, both in pattern and condition.
Gayle

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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 19 January, 2007 - 10:04am
Last updated 24 June, 2008 - 9:36am

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