Comments & ID Thoughts
This spider was on the ceiling of my hotel room (5th floor) - the window is sealed, although there may be some big enough breaks in the seal round it to let this small spider through - I would say it was about 3-4cm from the tips of it's front legs to that of the back - the end of the legs, after a thicker blackish- brown foreleg was thinner and reddish-brown, maybe vermillion - The body was blackish-brown (more black than brown) with a white oval spot on the back that you can see in the photo. I have a second photo that may aid ID - someone joked (I think) about it being a Black Widow (presumably the European version, or "Malmignatte" - it might be a juvenile or a male at a stretch? Otherwise I really don't know - it did not seem agressive only lowering itself a short distance on a length of silk and moving it's legs in what seemed like a defensive display when I got too close to take the photo... Many thanks to anyone who can help identify this spider as I'm intrigued now :-)
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- Submitted: Mar 10, 2020
- Photographed: Mar 10, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Paris, (14th arrondissement, near Alesia), France
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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