On 03/06/2012 11:41, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:58:58 +0100,
wrote:

Initially, never having seen a white spider
before, I thought it was some sort of albino mutant and searching on
that, rather than the simpler "white" denied me the more appropriate
search results.

To look at that the other way around, are there any albino spiders
apart from Crab spiders?

Steve





There are other white spiders, but afaik they are not albino forms of
their species. A favourite spider of mine, Enoplognatha ovata, has 3
different white-based colourations:

1st colouration is white (often with tiny black dots, esp. on the median
line),
2nd colouration is white with a raspberry red median line.
3rd colouration is white with a broad raspberry median line. Sometimes
this presents as two concerging bands with white ground colour in the
centre.
All 3 colourations can come from one egg sac, hence they are not given
separate sp. names.


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=eno...mgrefurl=http:

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