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Steatoda borealis. My best guess from looking at your site. This was small, could fit on dime. I used a 100mm lens with a 2x teleconverter and a 51mm extension tube. There a catchlight around the head around the eyes, or maybe that is its eyes?, hard to say. Thanks for letting me submit and I appreciate your web site-
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- Submitted: Oct 17, 2022
- Photographed: Oct 16, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Anchorage, Alaska, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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I agree that it’s Steatoda borealis. Your photo shows the makings well. It has a “T” marking with the upper line of the T wrapped over the top of the abdomen, flowing down bilaterally. There are often also those white specks that look like distant stars on the abdomen. This is a male. The “boxing gloves” in front of him are the tips of his pedipalps. The shape of a male spider’s palps are a way spiders are scientifically identified to species. I like how your photo came out. It has a 3D effect and makes the markings, like the… Read more »