Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Small Spider to ID.
#1
Size about 3mm...Found in my greenhouse. Is it possible to put a name to such a plain looking spider?
Regards Roger
#2
It's immature - the glassy, transluscent legs are a give-away. One of the arachnologists might suggest a genus (my guess is
Tegenaria), but don't wait up for a species!

#3
Hi Tony
Yes it looks like a juvenile
T.domestica, I'll keep an eye on where it has set up shop. There is an
Amaurobius fenestralis lurking about 1 metre along the staging who might eat it, if not I'll see what it grows up to be, and post a photo.....how long till it's an adult?
Regards Roger
Sorry for delay in replying...We were promised an internet superhighway....ended up with a hill track with no passing places.....it's been off again
#4
Hello, Roger!
Roger Thomason wrote:
Yes it looks like a juvenile T.domestica
I don't think so.
T. domestica normally has more clearly banded legs (difference to
T. atrica). But I am not sure if that is also true for such small spiderlings...

#5
Hi Juergen...I don't know how I managed to miss your post,
just spotted it today. This is all academic now as far as this little spider is concerned. It is no more

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She who must be obeyed has been giving the greenhouse a spring clean.
T.atrica hasn't been recorded in Shetland
Regards Roger
#6
forget about spiderlings... unless you have the "mother" near
#7
Hi Jorge
long time no hear....don't some of these have the "mother" as a first meal?
#8
Hello, Roger!
Roger Thomason wrote:
T.atrica hasn't been recorded in Shetland
Maybe. If I remember correctly, you have (at least on the British mainland)
Tegeneria gigantea there. But that is so similar to
T. atrica that some specialists think, they are only forms of the same species or at most different subspecies. What I wrote regarding
T. atrica also is true for
T. gigantea.
#9
Hi Juergen...Yes we have
T.gigantea here, also
T.saeva.
Regards Roger
#10
Roger Thomason wrote:
Hi Jorge
long time no hear....don't some of these have the "mother" as a first meal?
there are some spiders that eat their mother.... for example, in eresid spiders. They are beauties, but "suckers."
#11
Suckers?
I'd love to carry on this conversation Jorge...but I'm going out for a couple of pints and a game of snooker

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#12
pints = beers?
EDIT: I see! We call it Imperial , like a way to "measure" the quantity of beer (imperial is the biggest measure . The smallest is called : FINO. )
#13
Pints = Newcastle Brown Ale, or Belhaven mmmm.
Edit..Not a lot of people know that. (Jorge)
With apologies to Michael Caine..who never uttered these words.