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 Spider, Metellina merianae (Thank you Roger & Juergen)
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| cyprinoid |
Posted on 15-09-2009 19:16
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 Member Location: Norway Posts: 1751 Joined: 19.06.09 |
Norway, Abdomen maybe 10mm or slightly more.
cyprinoid attached the following image:  [157.77Kb] Edited by cyprinoid on 23-09-2009 08:32 |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 15-09-2009 19:21
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Tetragnathidae..Metellina merianae possibly...It looks like one I posted on here last year. EDIT; Change Family name from Metidae (old  from my Checklist) to Tetragnathidae.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 15-09-2009 19:33 |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 15-09-2009 21:41
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14250 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hi, cyprinoid! If you give the habitat (at house/building? drainage? cave entrance? rocks? not too dry und sunny?) one could possibly rule out all other Metellina species... Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| cyprinoid |
Posted on 15-09-2009 21:50
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 1751 Joined: 19.06.09 |
Hi, it was close to the outer wall of my garage (concrete) near the ground which is covered by some plants. Must say it is shady and somewhat moist since it is western Norway :-). |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 16-09-2009 00:37
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14250 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hi! cyprinoid wrote: Hi, it was close to the outer wall of my garage (concrete) near the ground which is covered by some plants. Must say it is shady and somewhat moist since it is western Norway :-). Then there's no doubt about M. merianae. They *love* garages also here in Germany  . Many are around and in ours and at and in the wintergarden. But at this season there is also M. segmentata in the garden, so I wanted to be sure, that the net was not in the open vegetation (they build their nets between grasshalms, nettles etc.).
Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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