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Unknown theridiid species?
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Unknown theridiid species? (tentative identification based on similarities with known theridiids)
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female: 6 mm
male: perhaps 3 mm
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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
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Too small to be a hazard to humans
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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.
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