Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Spider species ?

Posted by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 19:53
#1
Body 3 mm.
It is a kind of spider like in Spiderman movie, on every occassion it drops down attached to its string, and then climbs buck up.
Location Slovenia.
Edited by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 19:55

Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-01-2010 21:50
#2
Immature Metellina merianae , I think.

Posted by BubikolRamios on 31-01-2010 23:10
#3
Thanks.

Posted by Smoggycb on 01-02-2010 18:22
#4
I think this is a species of Theridion (Theridiidae)

Posted by Tony Irwin on 01-02-2010 23:00
#5
Mmmm ... not sure. Do you reckon it's adult?

Posted by Smoggycb on 02-02-2010 09:11
#6
At that size maybe not, but to my eyes the jizz is theridiid, especially the quite round, dark prothorax. The abdominal pattern doesn't look like merianae, but does resemble something like Theridion mystaceum (though not excactly)

Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-02-2010 22:34
#7
OK, I'll agree it's a theridiid - but not Theridion - would you settle for an immature Steatoda bipunctata? Smile

Posted by Smoggycb on 02-02-2010 23:02
#8
Could be. I thought about Steatoda bipunctata, but didn't think the pattern was quite right, though it does sort of have the feel. Yeah, I can go with that.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 03-02-2010 01:50
#9
Hi!

Tony Irwin wrote:
would you settle for an immature Steatoda bipunctata? Smile


Steatoda of course, but I'm not totally sure of bipunctata, seems somehow untypical to me. There are further species in (south)east Europe, S. castanea for example.