Login
Register
Comments & ID Thoughts
Maybe in the family Cheiranthiidae or Trachelidae.
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Oct 29, 2019
- Photographed: Oct 17, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Steatoda triangulosa, family Theridiidae. This is a really common one, you overthought it. family Theridiidae is the Cobweaver/ Tangleweb/ Widow family. The only dangerous ones to people are in genus Latrodectus, such as Black Widow, Brown Widow, White Widow, Redbacks, etc. The “False Widows” are genus Steatoda. They live in houses and outdoors. I have multiple Steatoda species in and on my house. They are very potent to insects and other arachnids. I’ve only seen a House Centipede kill one – very carefully. They are great for catching mosquitoes and moths and flies. They avoid sudden bright light. If you… Read more »
Thanks for the info, wouldn’t a Hammock spider also have triangles? Also, I thought Cobweb-weavers had a much bigger abdomen and smaller cephalothorax.
https://spiderid.com/picture/46090/ This is the only Hammock Spider I’ve seen, there must be more variations. Yes, the proportions are off for a Cobweaver . So is the shape of the leg joints, the pointy beak-thing, the color of the legs, the leg lengths, shapes of the leg segments, the feet, and more. Yes, my ID was incorrect, I under thought it. I don’t know any more about the possible families that it could be in than you do. 😉