#oecobius

[morbidsmenagerie]

Tiny spider I found today, he was so small I thought it was a newborn sling until I saw his palps.

[onenicebugperday]

@oivermi13 submitted: This tiny thing (about the size of a fingernail) climbed in my fluffy blankets and I had to escort it outside, found in southeast Nebraska. I looked up a bunch of identification resources and none of them seemed to have the same body color plus stripes so I'd like some help cuz it's driving me crazy!

Without more photos my best guess is a wall spider in the genus Oecobius :)

[drhoz]

#1698 - Oecobius sp. - Wall Spider

One of hundreds occupying the front veranda wall at Yallingup. 

A genus of very small spiders that spin webs over crevices in rocks, on walls, and similar species. They use a specialised organ called a cribellum to seperate each strand of silk into many much finer strands as they emerge, to produce cribellate silk that entangles prey animals without requiring sticky droplets, by exploiting Van der Waals forces and strongly absorbing the waxes on an insects exoskeleton. 

Wall Spiders are found worldwide, and a few species are cosmopolitan or invasive. In at least one species, resident Wall Spiders won’t contest a web if another wall spider tries to move in, and will simply move out to start another. 

[onenicebugperday]

@vibeforce submitted: hi! i have a couple of these little spiders running around my room, they're extremely tiny. located in san diego! any ideas of what they are ?

Hello! Yeah! It's a wall spider, probably Oecobius navus :)