Castianeira longipalpa

Picture ID 78874

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Castianeira longipalpa (Hentz, 1847), female.

Submitted by:
rickcwest
Submitted: Aug 19, 2019
Photographed: Aug 19, 2019
Spider: Castianeira longipalpa
Sex:
Female,
Location: Sooke (Vancouver Island), British Columbia, Canada
Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Open field, pasture, prairie, grassland
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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pcasto

July 6, 2020 10:02 pm

Definitely not Castianeira spp. Looks more like Gnaphosa sericata or Drassyllus insularis.

ItsyBitsy

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July 6, 2020 10:46 pm

You may want to reconsider that statement. (Also fyi the gentleman you’re calling out is a world-class arachnologist). Compare: https://bugguide.net/node/view/712646/bgimage

pcasto

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July 6, 2020 11:04 pm

I stand corrected. There are just so many polymorphisms in this species that appear to be regional. None of my identification manuals (Spiders of N. America, Common Spiders of North America) show this variation.