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10-04-2008, 07:34 PM
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| | | Unidentified spider
Found this lovely specimen in a hide at RSPB Dungeness recently (the birds weren't playing ball that day so I switched to macro). Can anyone help with an id...?  
I also took a few sequences for focus stacking when I get a bit of spare time.
Thanks in advance!
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10-04-2008, 07:47 PM
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Looks like a female Larinoides sp, with a possibility of L.sclopetarius though without epigyne I can't give that 100% but it is within its range.
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10-04-2008, 08:04 PM
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I'd identify this undoubtedly as L. sclopterarius, especially since you found it in such a likely situation. This species favours metal structures near water. Cheers, Tristan |
10-04-2008, 10:08 PM
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That's the one! Many thanks both!
I kept scanning through the colour plates in Roberts' Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe but couldn't see it. Possibly because it's only the male that's illustrated, although now you've given me the name I can recognise it from the picture. The size (which I completely forgot to mention in my original post - d'oh!) of between 10 and 15mm is right too. The hide I found her in was wooden but was very close to water.
Thanks again!
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24-04-2008, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2  I also took a few sequences for focus stacking when I get a bit of spare time. | Not very successful with the focus stacking I'm afraid - they don't look too bad at first glance but on closer inspection you can see that many of the spines on her front legs are duplicated...  
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