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Hi there, just wanted to say I love your site. I recently photographed a spider outside my house and came to your site to identify it. On your spider page I see someone has already posted it. You identified it as “Herpyllus vasifer”. I then searched the web on this to find more info. What I found out was, this spider is actually called “Herpyllus
ecclesiasticus” or the “Parson Spider”. This is probably why you couldn’t find much information on this particular spider. Here is a website with more info on it: http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/spiders/27400
I have also attached 2 photos that I took of this beautiful spider. Thanks!
Dan
Hi Dan,
We were using a long outdated spider book when we originally identified the spider you cite. Names do change. We noticed that BugGuide is also using the more current name. Thanks for the update.
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