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Uloborus glomosus? It is the thing that looks like a bud at the end of the twig. Note the hairs on the legs, distally. It kept posing as a bud. I've seen many of these in the woods here. They are small and escape easily and are difficult to photograph.
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- Submitted: Oct 17, 2019
- Photographed: Oct 13, 2019
- Spider: Hyptiotes cavatus (Triangle Weaver)
- Location: (Nashua River Rail Trail) Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
I spotted it because it had a tiny orb web. That led me to look at family Uloboridae. There is only one species in the family known in North America.
One species in Uloboridae? There’s ~15 spp. in 7 genera in North America. Might only be one in NH, that I’d need to check.
OK, I see it might be Hyptiotes. That looks better, I need to compare it when I’m not on a phone. My mind went straight to Uloborus glomosus which is more twig-like.
Head and legs look like Micrathena, not sure from this though.
I didn’t comment on most of them to save time but I went through and labeled most of your images.
Thank you, there were some surprises there! The Wadota sp. spider was the only spider I got a photo of in the White Mountains though I really searched for a week. I’m glad it turned out to be one we needed more photos of!
OK, not a lot of detail but close enough that I filed it. Looks like you were right with Uloboridae, just a different genus. Should just be the one species in your area. Hyptiotes cavatus. 🙂
Awesome! A new spider for the site! I’ll try to get better photos next time I see them.
There’s a newly discovered living Harvestman species. It shows potential relic traits from an ancient evolutionary lineage https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223828