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Comments & ID Thoughts
Phidippus adumbratus.
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- Submitted: Aug 10, 2020
- Photographed: Oct 31, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Oxnard, California, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Concur! Probably female!
Thank you! How can one tell it’s a female?
It’s a guess on my part, due to body proportions. The only way to be truly conclusive is lookin’ at the naughty bits with a microscope, but females do tend to have larger abdomen and smaller pedipalps, which are the “mouth finger” thingies.
There are also sex-based color and pattern variations depending on species, but with so many species I don’t know them all lol.