Found in Norco CA.

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  Travis Antula

• Jul 19, 2017

Can you get a picture of the spinnerettes?

 

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  Pretz

• Jul 19, 2017

@Travis Antula its pretty agro im not gonna attempt lol. Its looking like a Kukulcania hibernalis female to me as well. thanks.

 

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  BobBarley

• Jul 19, 2017

Yeah, I would be really surprised if this specimen s Caligosa.

 

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  Ungoliant

• Jul 19, 2017

@Travis Antula That is a particularly leggy Kuk; I have seen ones (often female) that look more compact.

The other pictures also show Kuk-like cribellate webbing. (I couldn't find any pictures of Calisoga silk, but I think they're ecribellate.)

 

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  Ungoliant

• Jul 19, 2017

@Pretz If you want to submit these pictures to BugGuide, they should be able to ID them for you. (There are some good spider people there. I can usually ID my own spiders, but I have sometimes posted ID requests there when I've been stumped.)

 

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  Travis Antula

• Jul 19, 2017

You could be right second opinions never hurt!

 

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  Smokehound714

• Jul 20, 2017

This is Kukulcania arizonica, quite far from its natural range, which is desert habitat.

 

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  Ungoliant

• Jul 20, 2017

@Smokehound714 I'm not sure that Kukulcania arizonica, K. geophila, and K. utahana can be reliably distinguished from photos in places where their ranges overlap. (The majority of California Kukulcania submissions are lumped into this combined group.)

But care-wise, it doesn't really matter which species of Kuk you have. They are all very easy to care for.

 

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  Smokehound714

• Jul 20, 2017

You see various desert species peppering the interior chaparral closer to the desert, like the occasional cryptoglossa or blue palo verde