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The Money Spider - _TNY_8063

This little spider is either a Lepthyphantes leprosus or a Lepthyphantes minutus (most likely the latter). Neither of them have a common English name, but they belong to the family Linyphiidae, the sheet weavers (because of the way their webs look).

 

In the British isles, Australia and NZ, Linyphiidae are sometimes called money spiders because of a old saying that if one runs across you, it has come to spn you new clothes, ie to bring you financial good fortune.

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Uploaded on February 23, 2023
Taken on April 18, 2019