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Steatoda Borealis? Does anyone know the common name?
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- Submitted: Mar 15, 2019
- Photographed: Mar 15, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: North Andover, Massachusetts, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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Hi, is this a male Steatoda Borealis? And is there a common name for him?
Hi, it looks like Steatoda, but I can’t see the markings well enough to tell which one. S. borealis has a gold line perpendicular to the anterior of the cephalothorax. Three more gold lines (or rows of dashes) are longitudinal on the top and sides of the abdomen. They’re pretty in bright light, the gold colored lines look like they glow. I was wondering about the common name yesterday too. Boreal means “northern.” If people don’t talk about on organism except in the scientific community, there just isn’t a name that’s common. It happens in all of the other Kingdoms… Read more »
I thought it might be one because the last spider I found and posted was a male Steatoda Borealis and he disappeared back into my house a little later so I thought it might be the same spider.