Arachnids of North Carolina
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Thymoites pallidus - a cobweb spider

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Taxonomy
Order: ARANEAEInfraorder: ARANEOMORPHAEFamily: THERIDIIDAE                                                                                 
Identification
Online Description/Photos: BugGuide Google, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, GBIF
Comments: female carapace yellow with some duskiness in center and with eye region sometimes black; sternum and legs yellow. Abdomen yellowish with black spots or lines on dorsum (see fig. 363 in Levi 1957a). The drawing looks like a black median longitudinal line, transversed anteriad by a short black line (like a cross pattern) and with a pair of thin black lines on the sides of the abdomen, not converging with the black cross. Venter with dusky spots.
Distribution in North Carolina
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Adult phenology:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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