Author: Gergin Blagoev

  • 29/150: Save A Spider Day – The Spined Micrathena

    29/150: Save A Spider Day – The Spined Micrathena

    animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae: Micrathena: Micrathena gracilis (Walckenaer, 1805) Micrathena gracilis is a moderately large orb-weaver spider from family Araneidae, commonly known as the spined micrathena. The females are typically black with white markings and have five pairs of black spines which are conical tubercles on the upper side of the abdomen.

  • 5/150: Tiny spiders crawl their way into the record books

    5/150: Tiny spiders crawl their way into the record books

    Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Anapidae: Comaroma: Comaroma mendocino (Levi, 1957) Comaroma mendocino is a new representative for Canada of the spider family Anapidae. This small rare spider was first described in 1957 by Herbert Levi from the United States in Casper, Mendocino County, California. It was found in British Columbia, Saturna Island by Claudia and…