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Unknown theridiid species?

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Species:
Unknown theridiid species?
(tentative identification based on similarities with known theridiids)
Family:
Theridiidae?
Body length:
female: 6 mm
male: perhaps 3 mm
Habitat:
This species probably lives in a small tangled web stretched across a V-shaped dead twig, the female occupying a retreat in the centre of this web
Toxicity:
Too small to be a hazard to humans
Unknown theridiid species?
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A closer view
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Underneath female

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Some theridiid species and the male of the araneid Deliochus zelivira, although the abdominal colour scheme is reversed for the latter species.


Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 9 February 2013.