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parasteatoda tepidariorum?
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- Submitted: Jan 4, 2024
- Photographed: Jan 4, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Rochester, New York, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 193020
It’s hard to say from that angle. There are lots of similar shiny cobweb spiders. Parasteatoda have a distinctive shape to their abdomen. Have a look at these pics and see if the shape matches. Even then, cobweb spiders are so variable there is no guarantee. Some of the cobweb spiders egg sacs are distinctive and can be a way to identify them. Some of the spiders in the link were id’ed based on their egg sacs… https://bugguide.net/node/view/6919/bgimage
I will go with American house spider.
Species Parasteatoda tepidariorum – Common House Spider – BugGuide.Net
I have never seen either of these 2 spiders in real life ….but this is so shiny. Is there any chance that it could be a very well fed… stretched to bursting… Steatoda triangulosa…..?
I was starting to wonder the same thing— the more I looked at the abdominal patterning I thought it looked more like that one
What ever it is it is extremely pretty.