Comments & ID Thoughts
Visiting Maine on vacation. Saw this striking spider, ca. 5cm overall, on the wall of a bank and, being a Biology professor in Florida, was curious as to its identity. The leg striping looks similar to two or three species in your database.
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- Submitted: Aug 31, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 31, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Madison, Maine, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This is either a dark fishing spider, Dolomedes tenebrosus, or a striped fishing spider, D. scriptus. I think it’s the former, but I not completely sure.
https://spiderid.com/spider/pisauridae/dolomedes/tenebrosus/
https://spiderid.com/spider/pisauridae/dolomedes/scriptus/