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Old 17-10-2009, 12:09 AM
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Re: A few id Spider pics

Use the pictures as a guide and then look at the details - if you notice it could quite easily have been T.robusta (especially before you gave me sizes) - you can't just go by pictures, or at least not just by one picture.
You need to cross reference them - with other guides/keys or with correctly ID'd photos.
Either way it's never going to be 100% accurate till you can view the palps or epigyne under a field lens or microscope.

Helpful sites which should give you a good cross reference:

Photo Gallery Arachnida
Spiders of Europe and Greenland
Spider Relatives, Arachnids, at Eurospiders.com
Salticidae :: Araneae :: Arachnida :: worldwide database of jumping spiders by Dr. Heiko Metzner

Good key (make sure you translate it, its in German)
Bestimmung_Ganz

Depending on which edition of Collins you have you'll need to update some of the listings - (name changes mainly) and one wrongly (so I've been told) Pardosa sp (should be saltans rather than lugubris)
The Checklist of British Spiders - British Arachnological Society
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