Diguetia canities, commonly called the desert bush spider is a species of coneweb spider

Coneweb spider

The coneweb spiders of the family Diguetidae are six-eyed haplogyne spiders that live in tangled space webs. They fashion a cone-like central retreat in which they hide and lay eggs. The family is small and is confined to the New World, where it is usually found in deserts...

 found in desert

Desert

A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Most deserts have an average annual precipitation of less than...

 and semidesert habitats in the United States

United States

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 from California

California

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 eastward to Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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 and Texas

Texas

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This rather hairy spider has a body length of around 9 mm. The rather elongated cephalothorax

Cephalothorax

The cephalothorax is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. The word cephalothorax is derived from the Greek words for head and thorax...

 is orange-brown and covered in short white hairs. The brown abdomen

Abdomen

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 has a dark, leaf-life marking bordered with white. The legs are yellow-brown. The sexes are generally similar. As with other members of this family, this spider constructs an elaborate and distinctive web

Spider web

A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web or cobweb is a device built by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets....

 with a domed sheet topped by a tubular retreat which has plant material incorporated. This retreat is used by the female spider to secrete its egg sac. The web is placed up to 60 cm above the ground, often in a bush (hence the common name).