#gnaphosidae

[apsciencebydan]

Side quest over the next few weeks: find a few of these gorgeous tiny micaria adults (juveniles are a little less colorful, shot #3) to send off to Marc Milne for a proper identification! For now, we're referring to them as Galaxy Spoods, for reasons you can surely deduce. 🌌

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 29TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Two photos of a brown and beige ground spider on a fallen light green leaf /End IDs.]

[morbidsmenagerie]

A local gnaphosidae species. Unfortunately not very common in captivity, so I intend on providing more information on their captive care. They are very active and fast, but seem unable to climb plastic. This girl has been voraciously hunting the fruit flies I've given her so far, and in the wild I've seen them catch fairly large prey for their size.

[chaoswalksthemoon]

I JUST LEARNED THIS IS A REAL SPIDER????

THEY NAMED IT HOTWHEELS SISYPHUS

HOTWHEELS SISYPHUS!!!!!!

[onenicebugperday]

@ambivalentantics submitted: hi!! this blog has helped me a lot with getting over my arachnophobia- thank you for that- so today i was able to scoop this lil guy outta my sink! my joyfriend said its a mouse spider (which is such a cute name??) so im wondering if u can confirm ([removed], usa but pls remove)? if not, thats fine, just wanna show u the lil guy!! what a lil guy.

Hello!! I'm glad you're getting over your fear! It's definitely a ground spider which is a family that includes mouse spiders. But I think it's a different species. Possibly Zelotes tenuis or similar?? Idk I'd need a photo with better lighting because the color and texture of the abdomen is integral for IDing a mouse spider.

[arachnophanatic]

UNKNOWN. He was too tiny and fast to get a clearer shot, and the cephalothorax is too dark to see the eyes. From his shape, size and tendency to flatten himself into stucco divots, he seems like Oecobiidae (disc web spider), but I haven’t been able to find any solid black Oecobiids yet.

@blameposting says Gnaphosidae (ground spider) and yeah that makes more sense!

[drhoz]

#2006 - Undescribed Ceryerda sp.

Photo by Patrick Wake.

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EDIT: Not actually a Cyclocrassus, as I'd originally IDed it as - although Ethan Yeoman agrees it was an understandable error - the fuzzy legwarmers are common across the Gnaphosoid families.

That said, it's still an undescribed species - the only named Ceryerda is Ceryerda cursitans, first described by Eugène Simon in 1909, and this ain't it.

The Ground Spiders - Gnaphosidae - is a much larger family than the Cycloctenidae. The seventh largest spider family, in fact, with over 2,000 described species and 100 genera worldwide. They specialise in hunting large and dangerous prey including other spiders, and swaddle them in thick silk to immobilise their jaws and legs.

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The genus Cyclocrassus is very new (and unrecognised by some resources) but they're distinguished by have some fantastically fuzzy legwarmers - this species, whatever it will eventually be named, is practically bald compared to some from the Eastern states of Australia - that said, the female are a lot less hairy than the males, so maybe this is a female? Hard to say without a clear photo of the pedipalps.

The Cycloctenid spiders or Scuttling Spiders usually hunt in leaf litter. It's not a big family - only 8 genera and 36 species are officially recognised, despite the family being erected in 1898. Most of the diversity is in New Zealand, with Cyclocrassus (if that is actually valid) and Cycloctenus in Australia, and Galliena in Indonesia.

[catsruleokay]

SPIDER GENUS 'HOTWHEELS'

According to the authors, the genus is named for its long looping embolus (part of the palp pictured below), which resembles a hotwheels track. It's a member of the Gnaphosidae family.

First described in 2023, Hebei University.

[thethingything]

I just saw a tiny spider (not sure which species but it was in the family Gnaphosidae) in the bathroom and while I couldn't get a photo because it decided to hang out near the ceiling where I couldn't reach, it was a very cool little guy

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[Hotwheels gen. nov., a new ground spider genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from southwest China]

The generic name refers to Hot Wheels, a collectible die-cast toy car made by Mattel, as the long, coiled embolus of this new genus resembles a Hot Wheels track; neuter in gender.

Liu & Zhang, 2024

[herpsandbirds]

Surprised by a spider last night on the wall, saw this Guy at 4 am via lamplight and when I grabbed a cup to catch and toss them outside they disappeared (!) I only know the local "don't get bit by these guys" spiders and I got no clue who this fella is

Maybe big as a dime, blackish, and Almost orange face pattern + stripe. Orange or brown.

They also had sorta big face nubs I think? I didn't want to get too close without a cup

Photo from Montana

SPIDER ID - Monatana, USA:

Hello, yes, I really can't be too sure from the photos, a bit blurry, but it looks a lot like Patterened Ant-mimic Ground Spider (Sergiolus montanus), family Gnaphosidae.

Have a look at these sites to see what you think:

Sergiolus montanus - Spider Identification & Pictures

Species Sergiolus montanus - BugGuide.Net

@onenicebugperday???

[halffizzbin]

Howdy fellow spider fan! Here is a lovely mouse spider who moved house with us; we hadn't seen her for a couple months before we moved, and I'd resigned myself to her having either moved on or passed on - but she's back and bigger than ever! She must have been molting. I wish the camera better captured her almost iridescent velvetiness.

@fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive !! Beautiful!! I haven’t met any Gnaphosidae at all yet. It would be a real struggle not to try and pet her lol

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 8TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Two photos of a black and beige ground spider on a green leaf /End IDs.]

[morbidsmenagerie]

Gnaphosidae

[wedontneedfeatherstofly]

Sergiolus capulatus ♂

[onenicebugperday]

@grow-and-decay submitted: A little assortment of bugs from [removed] NSW, Australia (please remove ‘[removed]’ part). First two pictures are the same insect.

I’m pretty sure the little green one is a leafhopper of some sort and the moth is Sphingidae, but any other info is appreciated :)

Your other message you sent was correct and the first dude is indeed a hoverfly. Maybe a female common halfband. The green dude is actually a Dictyopharid planthopper rather than a leafhopper. The only similar species I could find in your area would be Hasta hastata, so maybe that!

You're also right the moth is a sphinx moth! Specifically looks like a coprosma hawk moth, Hippotion scrofa. The spider, as far as I can tell just from that photo, is a prowling inland spider, Ceryerda cursitans, which is a type of ground spider in the family Gnaphosidae.