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Comments & ID Thoughts
Could this be a Brown Widow?
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- Submitted: Oct 21, 2022
- Photographed: Oct 21, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Hi. No, not a widow. This is a male orb weaver of sort, just no clue which one.
Spiders in Oklahoma – Species & Pictures (spiderid.com)
Maybe. It’s web was very jangled and steatoda-like. Not concentric rings like an orb weaver.
However ai concede the likelihood of Latrodectus is slim.
Male orb weavers don’t spend much work making those ornate webs, especially as they mature. Also a bit unusual for Latrodectus to park with their first 2 pair of legs together.
Definitely agree with that.