Comments & ID Thoughts
Genus Tutelina, chrome looking spider
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- Submitted: Jun 8, 2025
- Photographed: Jun 8, 2025
- Spider: Tutelina elegans
- Sex:
- Location: Mebane , North Carolina, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: On Flower
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Eyes
“Touchdown”
Love it! 🙂 It’s a fantastic photo! Here’s a guide to distinguishing the 2 most likely species of Tutelina: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1978 I labeled it as a female T. elegans because it appears to have the white anterior abdomen band. males don’t and T. similis doesn’t. The link I added to Bugguide mentions that there are unlisted species of Tutelina in the Southeast. Please feel free to upload photos to them for review, we aren’t competitors and overlap isn’t scienfically significant. They are research-grade and are supposed to be a preferred search result in Google searches. I’m camera shopping, what did you… Read more »