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17-05-2009, 09:36 AM
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| | | Orange red bodied spider
Seen on nettles in woodland clearing. Body about 5mm long.   |
17-05-2009, 10:55 AM
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| | | Re: Orange red bodied spider
It's a nicely coloured Meta segmentata.
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17-05-2009, 12:46 PM
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| | | Re: Orange red bodied spider
Thanks very much No.9.
I've now done a bit of googling and wondered how you knew it wasn't Meta mengei ? I don't know what sex it is but I've found I also took a photo from underneath so I thought I'd post this as well for confirmation. Thanks.  |
17-05-2009, 01:33 PM
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| | | Re: Orange red bodied spider
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Originally Posted by peterbolson  ...I don't know what sex it is... | Both your individuals are lady spiders - the girls have thin pedipalps and the boys' ones look more bulbous - like punchbags. That I think was a tip from No. 9 or Venger. |
17-05-2009, 03:40 PM
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| | | Re: Orange red bodied spider
Just a lucky guess? though your ventral shot confirms M. segmentata as according to Roberts the "... dark midline band does not extend forwards beyond the epigyne."
Obviously an early one as they are [i]generally[i] late summer to late autumn, M. mengei being spring to early summer.
And female for the reasons in last posting. Males of M. mengei also have distinct long ventral hairs on metatarsus I and II, whereas males of M. segmentata do not - just something to look out for in the field.
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Thanks Jason & No.9 | | |
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