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Metazygia Orb Weaver
Metazygia sp.
-2.15, -77.69
Field Notes
Description:
Today, March 14 is Save a Spider Day in the US. So, in honor of that I have a neat, well, not so neat if you look at all the dead insect bodies it has piled up, but still "neat" in its own way. I believe this is a small orb-weaver spider about the size of a medium-sized pea. The abdomen has a gray base with a black stripe down the middle of the dorsum and a wiggly line (sorry for the scientific terminology) on each side of the center stripe. The legs, cephalothorax and underparts are black with a reddish tint.
Habitat:
This spider resides on the side of a cement block building under a small wooden overhang in the Amazon rainforest in SE Ecuador (700 masl).
Notes:
I believe that I have erroneously been carrying this as a Furrow spider (Larinia sp). Getting ready to post it today I see that Larinia has no species listed for Ecuador. Hmmmm. So he is nameless on his special day 😟 Perhaps someone can give him a name . . . . a scientific one would be appreciated 😃
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