Native CA Myg to ID

cacoseraph · Native CA Myg to ID

maybe Nemesiidae maybe Calisoga but probably not either of the two species already shown. it has already molted in my care so no free babies. from Mariposa County.

i could easily be wrong about this little guy, though. i have done NO keying and at this point have not read about mygs for a year or so. it looks like it might be scopulate which makes me think i might be wrong for some reason.. but i don't remember

zoom --> http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...raph/mygla/toID/LittleNemo01b.jpg

zoom --> http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...raph/mygla/toID/LittleNemo02b.jpg

What

Size?

Edit:
Need a few things:

- Side view of tibia on leg I
- Better spinneret photo
- Ventral shot showing sternum clearly
(Just to be sure it really is a nemesiid)

cacoseraph

yeah, they are not exactly diagnostic shots

i will try to get better pics, but i am not supposed to have bugs and having a slightly fractious spider get loose in my room would be bad bad bad

here is a scale shot. i would say spider is like .5-.75"BL and maybe like 1.5"DLS at most

cacoseraph

man, i have gotten rusty at taking pics! that and i can only find a beat up, plastic lens triple lens magnifier :/

perspective of that shot --> http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...gla/toID/LittleNemo_sternum_a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...a/toID/LittleNemo_spinners01a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...a/toID/LittleNemo_spinners02a.jpg

i could NOT get the leg shot!
closest i came
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums...gla/toID/LittleNemo_badknee_b.jpg

could you say what you are doing? i forgot just about everything i knew about mygs, apparently =P i should be able to study up a tiny bit and get it back, hopefully

What

Hmm, well the segments and size spinnerets check out as well as the sternum for Nemesiidae, but the structure of the spinnerets makes me want to say Cyrtaucheniidae...

I can bring my "Spiders of North America" manual thing to the bug fair and let you look over the keys/descriptions. Smile

cacoseraph

my janky brain wants to say i found this thing in an open burrow... but that is not very reliable at all!

and of course, none of my captive Cyrta have made any doors and apomastus doesn't make doors ever.... so i guess it kind of doesn't matter what it came from, really

i would love to check over that book. i bought a spiders of los angeles but, er, lost it

What

I will be sure to bring it and the current JoA with me for the BugFair. Very Happy

cacoseraph

i'll be sure to bring the bug

danka