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Erigone sp?

A small fast-running dark male spider body length 1.5-2mm possibly Erigone sp. but these spiders are notoriously had to identify. Dr Ron Atkinson remarked in an email, only a little jokingly, "Frankly, if theridiids are best put in the "Too hard" basket then Linyphiids should be placed in the "Don't ever go there" basket."

Erigone sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Another specimen, this one perhaps a little older, not so fast running, body length about 2.5mm collected on the creek near the SOWN shed, Paten Park on 18 July 2009. Slight tinge Of colour on leg III.

Erigone sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

 

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