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- Submitted: Dec 23, 2023
- Photographed: Dec 23, 2023
- Spider: Parasteatoda
- Location: Tennessee, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Parasteatoda
Picture ID 192835
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May 8, 2019 - Photographed
May 8, 2019 
Buenos Aires Ciudad, Argentina
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- Submitted Dec 22, 2019
- Photographed Jul 20, 2019
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- Submitted Sep 20, 2019
- Photographed Jul 20, 2019
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- Submitted Apr 16, 2024
- Photographed Aug 3, 2023
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I think this is a cobweb spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum
https://bugguide.net/node/view/6919/bgimage
There are some similar Therrids, but I’ll agree with the most common. I have been confused this year by the many colors and patterns, sizes, and behaviors of Parasteatoda – the ones I’ve observed have been really variable. One put her egg sacs in a broken Paper Wasp hive.
They are such pretty little.jewels aren’t they. For the ID I was going by something I remember reading ages ago and can’t find again….. the very dark line on her butt facing us and the parallel lines at the lowest point facing us. It might even have been a way to distinguish Parasteatoda imports from native UK therids in which case it wouldn’t be valid to differentiate US ones.