Comments & ID Thoughts
This spider has distinctive spikes around the edge of its cephalothorax and also on the mandibles. Approx 5mm in size. Found in open bog habitat.
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- Submitted: Dec 9, 2021
- Photographed: Nov 17, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Richmond bog habitat, British Columbia, Canada
- Spotted Outdoors: Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Mature male Dwarf Spider (Erigone sp.). Dwarf Spiders (Erigoninae spp.) are famous for having unique sexually dimorphic traits amongst mature males of the species’. Specifically in the carapace, in this case, having spikes.