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Tetragnatha versicolor, male and female? Both on a leaf of Water Hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, growing in a fish pond.
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- Submitted: Jul 9, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 28, 2016
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Yes they look like a male and female. The one to the right has a proximal recurved pedipalp ( the end of the pedipalp closest to the body curves back toward the body). That is a way to identify it as male. The silver spider has a distal recurved pedipalp visible. The photo clearly shows their eye arrangement (thank you!), especially on the silver spider. They have two pair of lateral eyes in which those eyes are closer together than the median anterior eyes are. Both color morphs are shown in the photo, the reddish morph and the morph with… Read more »