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- Submitted: Dec 11, 2018
- Photographed: Jul 21, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Butuan city, Philippines
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 50047
Oxyopes. Why not show the whole spider?
Cause only the back of a spider will see if this spiders belongs in that taxonomic classification based on what i read
No … that is a very difficult and unreliable way to try to ID a spider. It is much better to see the whole spider to accurately determine family/genus. Eye clusters, leg lengths, spines on the legs, spinnerets, ventrals etc. can all be important too. Although I can recognize hundreds of species from just a dorsal it is the genitalia that are most often used to determine species.
Ok thank you!.. Can i have favor?.. I studied the diversity and abundance of spiders in our town so in order to identify them i viewed it to the microscope and took it a pictures . Can you help me to identify their taxonomic classification for my study?. I hope you notify me. Thank you again!
Although some days I try, I can’t respond to every ID request (not enough hours in a day) but other members here are free to offer thoughts on IDs if they are so inclined.
Thank you! I hope so