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Andrew Douglas
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A tiny, busy female cobweb Spider, Anelosimus vittatus, we think, moving her silk-covered egg sac to her chosen place... @britishspiders.bsky.social
What will it be? Have dissected and currently in KOH. The site had oaks and I think some mature oaks, so might be praedatus but will probably be aureolus or whatever.
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Andrew Douglas
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Another Agyneta with the sticky-out epigyne, but this one could be mollis, but in fact, looks more like saxatilis, in a way. Except I can't find an image of saxatilis with the sticky-out epigyne. So, mollis or saxatilis? @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
Tiso vagans. A common spider but new to me.
The side showing the paracymbium.
Andrew Douglas
I think this is Common Meadow Rue. Is it particularly rare, or is it something else that is? Most plants marked with a pole, as if important.
After dissection I'm not sure if this is Philodromus aureolus or cespitum. I think we've ruled out praedatus. I think given the shape of the undissected epigyne, I'm going with aureolus. @britishspiders.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
Also a pair of Phylloneta sisyphia, male and female, and a strange pale Anelosimus vittatus female.
I'm not sure if I can see that bar that goes across in cespitum? In the photo with the back lighting.
I got a bit side-tracked, but here are a quartet: Walckenaeria cucullata, Hypomma bituberculatum, Thyreostenius biovatus and Walckenaeria corniculans
