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05-09-2010, 08:54 AM
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Can anyone help me identify this spider? 
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It certainly is well camouflaged on this leaf.
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05-09-2010, 09:13 AM
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Looks like one the Harvestmen spiders, but i'll leave the ID to the experts |
05-09-2010, 09:15 AM
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It is an Oplione, also known as a harvestman, but I cannot identify it, sorry.
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05-09-2010, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by ladyhawk  Looks like one the Harvestmen spiders, but i'll leave the ID to the experts | Quote:
Originally Posted by Meta menardi It is an Oplione, also known as a harvestman, but I cannot identify it, sorry. | Thank you both for your replies. Spiders confuse me for ID.
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06-09-2010, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by PeterD Can anyone help me identify this spider?
Click here for larger image.
It certainly is well camouflaged on this leaf.
Thank you | It looks to me like the largest British Orb Weaver Spider in Britain, the Garden Spider. |
06-09-2010, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by I Love Nature It looks to me like the largest British Orb Weaver Spider in Britain, the Garden Spider. | I should look again, because it's definitely not a spider  It's a harvestman. I would hazard a guess at one of the Oligolophinae, but I'm no expert.
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06-09-2010, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by John_M I should look again, because it's definitely not a spider It's a harvestman. I would hazard a guess at one of the Oligolophinae, but I'm no expert. | How can you think that. OK I found one in my house. I see them outside all the time. Look on google images for an example. Just type in garden spider. The body is too thin on the harvestman and the legs are too long and not striped like this spider. It's you who should look again. What information do you place your ID on? The harvestman looks more like a daddy long legs spider than the one in the picture.
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06-09-2010, 09:49 PM
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It's an Opilione or to use 'common' names a Harvestman, or in some areas 'Daddy Longlegs', in other words a Harvestman is a 'Daddy Longlegs'.
It is easily distinguished from a spider apart from it's overall appearance, by it having a single body segment, whereas a spider has two. The colouring is similar to that of some Araneus diadematus - the Garden spider, but that's where the similarities end.
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06-09-2010, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by I Love Nature How can you think that. OK I found one in my house. I see them outside all the time. Look on google images for an example. Just type in garden spider. The body is too thin on the harvestman and the legs are too long and not striped like this spider. It's you who should look again. What information do you place your ID on? The harvestman looks more like a daddy long legs spider than the one in the picture. | This is a male Araneus diadematus, or garden spider 
Please note; two body segments and not one.
The spider has eight eyes, not two like the harvestman.
My ID is based on any decent spider book or spider site you care to mention.
This particular one was in my kitchen, but I see them outside all the time too.
IMO, the only real resemblance is the number of legs.
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Sorry been away for a bit .
Its Paroligolophus agrestis (F) ... | | | |
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