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- Submitted: Sep 26, 2020
- Photographed: Sep 26, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: LONG BEACH, California, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 127405
The shape and markings are intriguing. Do you have any dorsal views of this individual?
I only got it from this angle, unfortunately. I thought it looked like a black widow in the sunlight, but the pictures show the brown stripes and white spots underneath along with the black and red.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Ewtitd8
Aside from any markings, the body shape and hairy legs are definitely wrong for a widow. I was actually leaning toward an orb-weaver, for which identification would probably require a good dorsal view. The body shape and markings remind me of Genus Leucauge, but the colors are wrong.
What kind of web did you find this in? Did it have a circular pattern, or was it a confusion of straight lines every which way?
Here’s a sighting of a spider with similar markings, an unidentified orb-weaver.
https://spiderid.com/picture/122862/
I didn’t get a good view of the web, but I suspect it was a work in progress. The web was between the bushes over the walkway from the house to the sidewalk. I had just been there an hour before, so it was brand new. I should have taken a picture with the flash on to see the web details.
The hairy legs and white / red spots look similar to the orb weaver in this article:
https://www.rfdtv.com/story/41185196/the-benefits-of-the-orb-weaver-spider