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31-05-2009, 05:38 PM
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| | | Help with Spider ID
Shady Woodland Habitat, lightly woven web on low vegetation. Looks like male trying to mate with female (vigorously resisted) whilst she is busy with a pray item.
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31-05-2009, 05:42 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Spider ID
Perhaps the Lesser Garden Spider, Meta segmentata?
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31-05-2009, 05:50 PM
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Thanks for the suggestion Jason, yes that would fit. |
31-05-2009, 05:52 PM
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Just wait for confirmation...  |
31-05-2009, 06:52 PM
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Difficult to be certain of ID from that angle but looks possible for Meta sp.
That is typical behaviour for Meta mengei/segmenta. Wait until the female is busy eating then sneak up behind her and wizz around her very quickly. However, the female is often protective of her meal so the male fails to mate.
That ploy never worked for me either! |
31-05-2009, 09:40 PM
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| | | Re: Help with Spider ID
Looks like Meta mengei as the male has the row of long ventral hairs on metatarsus I and II.
No.9 Spider 
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31-05-2009, 09:55 PM
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Yay! I was 110% right on Genus... and 105% wrong on species! Sorry Lester; I should have stuck to Genus 
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01-06-2009, 05:16 PM
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Thanks for the refined ID No 9.
Jason, at least you got the genus, I trawled through Roberts with only a few tentative candidates. | | |
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