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Hello I'm new here. Neriene digna?
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- Submitted: Feb 18, 2020
- Photographed: Feb 11, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hobo spider maybe? The fangs look crazy cool whatever type of spider that is… ya it might be Neriene digna.. the fangs match the type found in those types.
Hi, you’re doing great! I don’t know what spider this is yet, but I can do a fun Spider Sex Ed. discussion. 😉 Those bulbous things are his pedipalps. Pedipalps are sensory and reproductive appendages. Male spiders don’t use their penis to transfer semen into the female, they use pedipalps. The male puts semen onto webbing, then uses his pedipalps like plungers to draw it into them. I hate to use a toilet plunger analogy, I don’t have anything better. The ends of the male’s pedipalps are then swollen with fluid. Allegedly, a female spider may find a male showing… Read more »