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Hello
I caught a spider for a school project. The photos were taken through a microscope. The body without the legs was about 2 mm long.
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- Submitted: Dec 27, 2023
- Photographed: Jul 14, 2023
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Cham, Switzerland
- Spotted Outdoors: Forest
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Not sure but I think I have found an id for you. Diplostyla concolor
The eyes, the shape, and the legs led me to think Your spider was a male of one of the sheet weavers…it has very distinctive pedipalps. They are quite long compared to others in the family which resemble boxing gloves. They are pale and translucent in your spider which threw me for a while as my best guess spider had much darker palps. But yours might be a sub adult …see this one …https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159854676
The thumbnail images under the main picture give other views of the same spider. Some taken using a microscope .