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Fishing
Spiders (Pisauridae: Dolomedes) Compared
   These
photos, placed side by side, enable a
cursory comparison between the three fishing spiders, of questionable
identification, reported on here
during 2008 (a fourth, the banded fishing spider, has been identified to
species with some certainty). The spider at far right was photographed by Rob S., in East
TX, on 110908; the spider in the middle was photographed by
Shane, in Bulverde, TX on 072508, and the spider at immed. right was
photographed by
J.W., in Sealy, TX, on 072908. Two (far right, immediate right) were
found on tree trunks, but the habitat of the middle spider is not known.
The markings on the dorsal abdomen appear very similar for all three,
and those of the carapace seem similar for the two flanking images, but
different for the middle image, in that the latter has rather
complicated dark markings over much of the carapace, but is lacking a
well defined wedge-shape marking at the anterior thoracic furrow, while
the other two spiders have few marks on the carapace but well-defined
wedge shape marks at the anterior thoracic furrow.
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TERMITE ENCOUNTERS *
SNAKE ENCOUNTERS * SNAKE
BITE FIRST AID *
SNAKE EXCLUSION *
SPIDER
ENCOUNTERS *
SPIDER
BITE FIRST AID *
SPIDER
EXTERMINATION
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PUSS CATERPILLAR ENCOUNTERS *
PUSS CATERPILLAR FIRST AID *
PUSS CATERPILLAR EXTERMINATION
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Assembled & Edited by
Jerry Cates. Questions? Corrections? Comments?
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