Phoroncidia spider.

Theridiidae, Phoroncidia tricuspidata

Notes:

I thought this was a Micrathena spider, but in the pictures I saw Micrathenas have allways an even number of spikes, and this one has three...

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca 12 years ago

Micrathena sp.

10 Comments

Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

bayucca, here you'll find info about this genus: https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_106...

bayucca 10 years ago

Hmm, is it a bad day for bayucca's suggestion?? Sergio, do you have any resource for Phoroncidia? I did not find any reasonable match nor information about the genus.

manuelariasarias77 10 years ago

OK - I just noticed that the last ID update was only an hour ago :)

manuelariasarias77 10 years ago

Amazing looking spider - did you ever get a final ID?

Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

I thought this was a malformed Micrathena spider, but now I discovered that it is a quite rare Phoroncidia spider (most likely P. tricuspidata).

MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow, Sérgio, incrível! Lindas cores!

Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Very alike..
http://travel.mongabay.com/belize/images...

CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

This is great! Always to amaze me.

Sergio Monteiro 12 years ago

Well bayucca, that would be interesting (I mean, the malformation thing). I'll keep looking for more informations.

bayucca 12 years ago

I nevertheless think it is a Micrathena sp., but I must admit asymmetrical spikes are not usual (as I have seen Micrathena). Why not a malformation? You can see there also some color irregularity.