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tlatoanitzin tijuana, Mexico Oct 18, 2016

Place: Northern Mexico, Tijuana. This is an unusual species in the surroundings, I guess, it was the first time I watched one of this. It is 3cm long, approximately.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 18, 2016

I would like to be able to see its eye pattern, as that often is quite helpful in assigning spiders to the correct family. Lacking that I will just say that I would include Metaltella simoni among the more likely suspects...
http://www.spiders.us/species/metaltella-simoni/#more_pictures

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tlatoanitzin tijuana, Mexico Oct 18, 2016

Thank you! I've never realized eye pattern was important when taking the photos, I thought upper part of abdomen pattern was more important.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 19, 2016

In many spider species the abdominal pattern can be highly variable, and thus by itself usually is of limited use in identification

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