r/spiders:

u/Seven7greens

I’d say immature male A. diadematus. One more moult before he goes on the prowl for a lady friend, and maybe get eaten.
u/Seven7greens

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1956
u/Seven7greens

*All spiders except Uloboridae. They do not have venom.
u/Seven7greens

Shes a beauty
u/Seven7greens

Many spider species have been ballooning into tradewinds and crossing the northern hemisphere. Example is here in Alaska, we have cucurbitina, even tho it isnt registered as being here. But we dont have opisthographa, which you have in the UK. https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/araniella-opisthographa
u/Seven7greens

This is a Male cucurbitina. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129017-Araniella-cucurbitina
u/Seven7greens

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1082789/bgimage
u/Seven7greens

Yes I am sure. According to Buckle & Roney 1995: “The A. proxima male has broad, dark submarginal stripes on its carapace, absent in A. displicata.”
u/Seven7greens

Actually. What you have pictured is araniella proxima. The black stripes on the cephelothorax arent present in cucurbitina.
u/Seven7greens

Btw- there has never been a confirmed Loxosceles reclusa ever found in Alaska, neither alive nor dead. I own the only two in Alaska and theyre used as teaching tools.