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- Submitted: Mar 7, 2018
- Photographed: Mar 7, 2018
- Spider: Steatoda borealis
- Sex:
Male, - Maturity:Adult
- Location: Sanford, Maine, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Steatoda borealis
Picture ID 6597
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Apr 22, 2020 
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Browns Mills, 
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- Submitted Apr 22, 2020
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- Submitted Apr 25, 2020
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- Submitted Mar 22, 2024
- Photographed Mar 22, 2024
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This spider was found in an old school crawling on the floor. Looks like a black ant with red and black banded legs, tan marking on its round body. Large “fangs”.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a male False Widow, Stetaoda borealis. The “fangs” are actually pedipalps, on mature male spiders they are enlarged, particularly so in this species and are used to transfer sperm to the female. (Sorry if that was too much info. 😀 )
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1004759/bgimage
Wow,thank you, itsybitsy! My students will LOVE this!!