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Old 16-10-2009, 06:33 PM
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I took on this spider as an exchange at work and the customer wasn't 100% on ID, being new to spiders I'm hopeless at ID'ing it.

The idea of P. Striata has been mentioned.

Any ideas?



Sorry for the rubbish picture, he wasn't cooperating!
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Old 16-10-2009, 06:39 PM
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I took on this spider as an exchange at work and the customer wasn't 100% on ID, being new to spiders I'm hopeless at ID'ing it.

The idea of P. Striata has been mentioned.

Any ideas?

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Sorry for the rubbish picture, he wasn't cooperating!
Going to need a good shot of the underside I'm afraid.
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Old 16-10-2009, 08:56 PM
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As Dan says, need a better pic, but id have a guess and say its a MM, unless the photo has really changed the colour.....?
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Old 16-10-2009, 09:11 PM
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Sorry I'm not up to speed on the abreviations, whats a MM?

Picture is quite accurate colour wise.
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Sorry I'm not up to speed on the abreviations, whats a MM?

Picture is quite accurate colour wise.
Mature Male - reached sexual maturity, and could only have a few months left.
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Old 21-10-2009, 10:31 AM
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Still very poor pictures but here's some shots of his underside.

I'm thinking more like it's the Red Slate now P. Rufilata?

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Old 21-10-2009, 11:32 AM
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Still very poor pictures but here's some shots of his underside.

I'm thinking more like it's the Red Slate now P. Rufilata?

Spider pictures by Paul_TDi - Photobucket
They still aren't very much use for a positive ID I'm afraid. There's a lot of yellow banding on legs 1 & 2, so I think we can rule out rufilata.

I'm leaning towards P. ornata myself, but we'd need better pics for a positive ID.
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Old 21-10-2009, 11:36 AM
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if you can get more light on it when you take your picture and maybe try and take it without the glass in the way it may help to get a clearer picture as the glare from the glass makes it hard to distinguish
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Old 21-10-2009, 02:51 PM
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I'll take my camera in again and try to get some better shots.

I might tub him up and get some shots that way instead.
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What you have all been waiting for, descent photos!

Right HERE
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