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 Spider species ?
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 31-01-2010 19:53
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1729 Joined: 14.06.09 |
Body 3 mm. It is a kind of spider like in Spiderman movie, on every occassion it drops down attached to its string, and then climbs buck up. Location Slovenia. BubikolRamios attached the following image:  [30.49Kb] Edited by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 19:55 highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 31-01-2010 21:50
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7332 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Immature Metellina merianae , I think.
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 31-01-2010 23:10
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1729 Joined: 14.06.09 |
Thanks.
highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 01-02-2010 18:22
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
I think this is a species of Theridion (Theridiidae) |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 01-02-2010 23:00
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7332 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Mmmm ... not sure. Do you reckon it's adult?
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 02-02-2010 09:11
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
At that size maybe not, but to my eyes the jizz is theridiid, especially the quite round, dark prothorax. The abdominal pattern doesn't look like merianae, but does resemble something like Theridion mystaceum (though not excactly) |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 02-02-2010 22:34
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7332 Joined: 19.11.04 |
OK, I'll agree it's a theridiid - but not Theridion - would you settle for an immature Steatoda bipunctata? 
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 02-02-2010 23:02
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
Could be. I thought about Steatoda bipunctata, but didn't think the pattern was quite right, though it does sort of have the feel. Yeah, I can go with that. |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 03-02-2010 01:50
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14370 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hi! Tony Irwin wrote: would you settle for an immature Steatoda bipunctata? Steatoda of course, but I'm not totally sure of bipunctata, seems somehow untypical to me. There are further species in (south)east Europe, S. castanea for example. Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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