Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Spider species ?
Posted by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 20:53
#1
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.
Edited by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 20:55
Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-01-2010 22:50
#2
Immature
Metellina merianae , I think.
Posted by BubikolRamios on 01-02-2010 00:10
#3
Thanks.
Posted by Smoggycb on 01-02-2010 19:22
#4
I think this is a species of
Theridion (Theridiidae)
Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-02-2010 00:00
#5
Mmmm ... not sure. Do you reckon it's adult?
Posted by Smoggycb on 02-02-2010 10:11
#6
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)
Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-02-2010 23:34
#7
OK, I'll agree it's a theridiid - but not
Theridion - would you settle for an immature
Steatoda bipunctata? :)
Posted by Smoggycb on 03-02-2010 00:02
#8
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.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 03-02-2010 02:50
#9
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.