stretch spiders
(Tetragnatha spp.)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
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Description |
Tetragnatha is a small to medium-sized spider. Females are 3 ⁄16″ to ⅝″(5 to 15 mm) in length not including their legs. They have a 1″ to 2″ (25 to 50 mm) legspan. Males are much smaller, ⅛″ to 5 ⁄16″ (4 to 8 mm) in length. The body is long and narrow, 2.5 to 5 times longer than wide, sometimes wider near the base. The front part of the body (carapace) may be yellow, tan, or reddish-brown. The abdomen varies from pale tan to dark brown, often with dark markings above. The legs are long and slender. The first, second, and fourth pairs of legs are very long, much longer than the body. The jaws (chelicerae) are very long, as long as the carapace in some species. The cylindrical body, very long legs, and very large chelicerae make it easy to identify this genus. Determining the species is much harder, and even experts often limit their identification to the genus level. |
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Taxonomy |
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Arachnida (arachnids) |
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Suborder |
Araneomorphae (typical spiders) |
Infraorder |
Entelegynae (entelegyne spiders) |
Superfamily |
Araneoidea (orbweavers and allies) |
Family |
Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orbweavers) |
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common stretch spider (Tetragnatha extensa) contrasted long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha straminea) crouching long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha demissa) dearmata long-jawed orbweaver (Tetragnatha dearmata) elongate long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha elongata) green big-jawed spider (Tetragnatha squamata) green long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha viridis) Guatemala long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha guatemalensis) pale long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha pallescens) red-bellied long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha rubriventris) shining long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha nitens) silver long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha laboriosa) tailed long-jawed orbweaver (Tetragnatha caudata) versicolor long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha versicolor) wormy long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha vermiformis) |
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Common Names |
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longjawed orbweavers long-jawed orbweavers stretch spiders |
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Glossary
Carapace
The hard, upper (dorsal), shell-like covering (exoskeleton) of the body or at least the thorax of many arthropods and of turtles and tortoises. On crustaceans, it covers the cephalothorax. On spiders, the top of the cephalothorax made from a series of fused sclerites.
Chelicerae
The pair of stout mouthparts, corresponding to jaws, in arachnids and other arthropods in the subphylum Chelicerata.
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Long-jawed Orb Weaver.....Tetragnathidae |
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Long-jawed Orb Weaver.....Tetragnathidae |
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Tetragnatha Sp Long Jawed Orb Weaver Feeding |
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Published on May 26, 2018 Long-jawed Orb-weaver Spiders, sometimes called Common Stretch Spiders spin an orb web to catch their prey. They're usually found in vegetation close to ground level and frequently close to water. The elongated body can vary in colour from creamy-yellow to green or pale brown. The legs are a yellow-brown colour. |
Eight-Eyed Expedition | How to Spot and Collect Tetragnatha Spiders |
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Aug 20, 2020 Visit our website for more information and to get involved! https://nature.berkeley.edu/eight-eyed-expedition/ This video is part of the Eight-Eyed Expedition project, a community science effort for collecting Tetragnatha spiders for the California Conservation Genomics Project. |
LONG-JAWED SPIDER mashing midge. Tetragnatha |
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Oct 16, 2017 Tetragnatha LONG-JAWED SPIDER mashing midge. Disturbingly gory with the red blood color. Carlyle Lake, IL. 9/14/2017 |
Long-Jawed Orb Weaver AWESOME Trick! |
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Aug 18, 2020 These Tetragnatha versicolor spiders can actually walk on water easier than it can walk on land. In this video, I'm showing you how they walk/swim on water. It's no wonder these are always found building horizontal webs right over water. This was recorded at 6 Mile Waterworks/ Rensselear Lake in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Thanks for watching! |
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LaceyAnn |
Location: Apple Valley, MN Found this unique spider above our sliding glass door. |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/27/2022 |
Location: Albany, NY |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/11/2022 |
Location: Albany, NY |
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| Mike Poeppe 6/20/2022 |
Location: just west of Houston, MN |
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Colleen Clements |
Location: St. Paul, MN |
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| Scott 4/2/2022 |
Location: Lake County 47.97113° N, 91.38748° W |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/10/2021 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/7/2021 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/6/2021 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/4/2021 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon 9/3 to 9/5/2019 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon Summer 2019 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/12/2018 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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