Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Spider to identify please...

Posted by pilonm on 21-11-2008 22:27
#1
Hello,

Here is a Rose Chafer in danger!


Can we identify who is attacking it? (family, genus, species)

Picture took at Sherbrooke, Quebec (near Vermont, USA).

Thanks again :-)

Michel

parcours.pilonm.org/pictures/inconnu19.jpg

Posted by Smoggycb on 23-11-2008 12:57
#2
The spider has the look of a theridiid, but that's as far as I will go!

Posted by Juergen Peters on 24-11-2008 00:22
#3
Hello!

Smoggycb wrote:
The spider has the look of a theridiid, but that's as far as I will go!


Looks very like a Steatoda or what a relative exists in the new world.

Posted by pilonm on 29-11-2008 17:27
#4
Hello all,

Thank you very much for your help concerning this spider!

You are right! After consulting other forums, everyone agree for a Theridiidae, genus Steatoda.

For the species, it will remains Sp. :-)

Cheers!

Michel