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Might be a Nuctenea Umbratica but the I've never seen one with this kind of yellow dots. What do you think?
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- Submitted: Sep 23, 2020
- Photographed: Sep 19, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Nancy, France
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
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Those yellow dots made me wonder, too, so I made some research on this genus and it turned out that N. umbratica is the only species established in France.
https://araneae.nmbe.ch/search/gen/238
Thank you for your answer, I did not know they could have this kind of yellow dots, how do you differentiate the Umbratica from the Silvicultix by the way?
You’re welcome. I doubt whether you can tell them apart by their naked-eye appearances. It could be a matter of microscopic details. What I know for sure is that they look exactly the same to me 😀