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It was found in my room, and pretty much accompanied me for some months already.
They do apparently birth new ones, but this is the only one I saw, that was visibly on the walls.
My inital guess for this really great looking arachnid is from Google Lens, who identified it as a "Rindenspringspinne" in german, which is the marpissa muscosa.
That though doesn't make much sense due to them rather living on logs of wood, barks and on trees. So unless it saw some of the paint layers, that is coming off my wall, as bark, it is unlikely to be one.
Google Lens also suggests it being in the family of chelicerata.
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- Submitted: Jan 9, 2024
- Photographed: Jan 2, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Schleswig, Germany
- Spotted Indoors: Basement or Cellar
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
I think Google lens is correct. The shape of her head and the colour marking i can see… all support Marpissa muscosa. …
I can’t account for the fact that she has decided to live rent free with you. They are not usually associated with human habitation as far as i can see. She may have come in on something and couldnt find her way out. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93520341
Yea, it probably is one!
Very interesting, and yea.
Now that I think about it, she has been crawling all over all the time, but she’s been lucky with some flies coming in, that she quickly snatches with her super speedy jumps.
Thanks for the reply!
They do tend to move around quite a bit anyway. She may be happy out in her new lodgings. Lucky you…She is a beauty
I just found a cool idea in Entomology Today ( I read weird stuff for fun.) Researchers in Israel found that they can get lots of samples of bugs, including spiders, with a simple technique. Just take a strip of corrugated cardboard and roll it into a tube. Use string to tie it to a tree or other spot you want to sample without doing harm. I’ll have to wait, my region is flooding from a tropical storm raining onto a recent foot of snow, very wet and destructive. Later in the year I’ll play with cardboard and bugs.