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16-03-2009, 10:16 PM
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| | | Non-native ID please
Found this guy in the back garden. As far as I can see I believe it to be segestria florentina. A mediterranean species that managed to settle in Devon and is quite well established in Bristol (where I found it), usually around ports. Can anyone confirm my ID?
What has thrown me on the ID is that the cephalothorax doesnt look quite right, whichled me towards zelotes.
Also the 3rd pair of legs seem backwards-facing rather than forwards as is notable in segestria  |
17-03-2009, 12:11 AM
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| | | Re: Non-native ID please
Do we have a size on this, and any other photos would help.
Think you're right with you're first guess looks more like a Segestria florentina than anything else, it's not a Zelotes spp.
A head shot would be good.
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17-03-2009, 12:52 AM
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| | | Re: Non-native ID please
Unfortunately not. I did try to get as close as possible. I have found on other Segestria florentina pics that the green-tinted chelicerae doesnt always show up in the pics, is there any reason for this? do all females have this trait or only some? approx 15mm |
17-03-2009, 08:13 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: South Coast
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| | | Re: Non-native ID please
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Originally Posted by sebastianbawn  Unfortunately not. I did try to get as close as possible. I have found on other Segestria florentina pics that the green-tinted chelicerae doesnt always show up in the pics, is there any reason for this? do all females have this trait or only some? approx 15mm |
The spider in your picture does look to be a small female S.Florentina, males have much larger leg span but smaller bodies
Last edited by wildherbalian85; 17-03-2009 at 08:18 AM.
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