Unidentified

Picture ID 136302

Picture of unidentified spider

Comments & ID Thoughts

No idea. Found in my water feature garden while digging up undesirable plants. Very “lethargic”, if that’s a fitting description. 4 yellowish spots on underside (two smaller, two larger). Glossy black legs. About the size of a nickel.

  • Submitted by: 
    Rrramthun
  • Submitted: Apr 18, 2021
  • Photographed: Apr 18, 2021
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Claremore, Oklahoma, United States
  • Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
  • Found in web?: No
  • Attributes:
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TangledWeb

Cool! I think it’s a Trap-door Spider in genus ummidia https://bugguide.net/node/view/6935/data I really wanted to find one when I was a kid after I read illustrated science books. Yes, I was born this way. 🙂 You might have scared it into moving when you were digging. Bugs move slowly when they’re cold. I was digging out non-native Star of Bethlehem bulbs in a flower garden this week and found an underground hive of lethargic Cellophane Bees. They’re cute with bold horizontal black and white stripes and they look like they’re made of shiny plastic. I suppose I should start wearing… Read more »

room_of_arachnids

yea, I wonder how it got here though usually, they don’t live in Oklahoma (or so I thought)
and I found a few forms that they may have traveled through floodwater, I’m an 11 year old with almost no expertise so do you know anything about that?

room_of_arachnids

hmmmmmm, looks to be Ummidia sp but, this species is fairly unknown though.