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Harvestmen Spider

Metaphalangium cirtanum

Description:

body about 1 cm, light brown with dark brown and white markings

Habitat:

spotted in a crate of harvested olives that sat on the front porch for several days...I made sure the spider moved on before we took the olives to press ;-)

1 Species ID Suggestions

Metaphalangium harvestman
Metaphalangium cirtanum Metaphalangium cirtanum – Wiki des Spinnen-Forums


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5 Comments

I'm glad I could help, @Bernadette :)

Bernadette S
Bernadette S 8 years ago

Thanks, Despina, for the ID!

I think seems more like and opillion

One more spotting from Italy:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/359...

glbnoah109
glbnoah109 8 years ago

This is a variety of wolf spider.

Bernadette S
Spotted by
Bernadette S

UMB, Italy

Spotted on Apr 3, 2016
Submitted on Apr 3, 2016

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