Cheiracanthium sp. (genus)
Unidentified Slender Sac Spider at Ainslie, ACT
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| Cheiracanthium sp. (genus) | YumiCallaway | 14 Jul 2020 | |
| Clubiona sp. (genus) | MichaelMulvaney | 26 Apr 2020 | |
| Clubiona sp. (genus) | jb2602 | 26 Apr 2020 |
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User's notes
Brown; Large forward pointing chelicerae; cigar shaped abdomen. So I think it is Clubionidae.
2 comments
14 Jul 2020
Good reasoning!! However, Eutichuridae (family - Slender sac spider) also have quite similar characteristics (including the ones you have mentioned) so it's worth checking over them as well; they're both sac spider families (one is "slender" and one is "stout"). From the images and descriptions I've seen, generally, if the chelicerae seem to resemble tetragnatha sp (forward-pointing, long, point away from each other), then it's more likely to be Cheiracanthium sp. Also, I have noticed that the third pair of legs on Cheiracanthium sp are distinctly shorter than the others - especially in comparison to the first two pairs of legs. These features aren't always clearly different, but with this one, I'm quite sure that it's a male Cheiracanthium sp. Whyte & Anderson p.143-147 has good reference photos of Cheiracanthium sp.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.152348-35.259143
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 Apr 2020 08:24 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- My flagged sightings jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cheiracanthium sp. (genus) Other hunting spiders Spiders
Species information
- Cheiracanthium sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Unidentified Slender Sac Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 651.91m Recorded at altitude
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