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I found this beauty crawling on a faux stucco wall outside my school building, about six feet off the ground,within a small courtyard, during my planning period, which I spent looking for spiders to photograph. The pics were taken this past Wednesday, March 1, and the weather was quite unseasonably warm. The spider appears to be a mature female, is about a half-inch, or slightly over 1 cm, in overall length, from front legs to the rear of the abdomen. The abdomen and carapace were very irridescent, showing purples, greens and blues, depending on how the light hit her, and the legs were that red-orange color. I know it's not a Widow, but perhaps a Steotoda of some sort? She was not particularily fast or skittish. I've never seen one like this before, and I'd really like some clue to her indentify. I'm in South Carolina, in case anyone didn't catch that in the title, in the northeastern quadrant of the state.
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