Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown egg sac

Posted by Rui Andrade on 10-03-2008 20:00
#1

This kind of eggs are very common in Barcelos but I didn't manage to identify them yet.

date: 09/03/2008

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Posted by crex on 10-03-2008 20:01
#2

Size?

Posted by Rui Andrade on 10-03-2008 20:09
#3

Maybe 4-5 mm of diametre I think

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-03-2008 20:21
#4

spider eggcase. Or Ero sp. (Mimetidae)
or Cyrtophora (it has some resemblance... Araneidae) but I would go more for Ero sp.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-03-2008 20:23

Posted by Rui Andrade on 10-03-2008 20:31
#5

Thank you Jorge, I will put the photo on aranhas.info:)

Posted by Juergen Peters on 10-03-2008 21:11
#6

jorgemotalmeida wrote:
spider eggcase. Or Ero sp. (Mimetidae)
or Cyrtophora (it has some resemblance... Araneidae) but I would go more for Ero sp.


Ero for sure. They live in and around our garden shed and make cocoons exactly like this:
http://insektenfo...eadid=4538

http://insektenfo...eadid=4031
http://insektenfo...eadid=5600

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-03-2008 23:52
#7

see this one photo I took with a beautiful Ero male.

farm1.static.flickr.com/217/454358161_e88f81ef41_b.jpg

Posted by Rui Andrade on 11-03-2008 23:40
#8

Thank you all for your help;)