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Brown Recluse

Posted by April 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am

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Found this crawling on my arm in Tucson, AZ. Any ideas on what it is?? Thanks!

recluse Brown Recluse

We have had ever so many letters containing paranoid questions wondering if just about every size and color spider that lives in the U.S. might be a Brown Recluse. You have the real McCoy here, Loxosceles reclusa.

Daniel:
The brown recluse is a male (very gangly compared to females). Keep up the great work!
Eric

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  1. ptosis wrote:

    Wow! got an answer in 5 minutes from :

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/378825

    A harmless male Kukulcania sp.
    Kukulcania are a neat group of spiders. Check them out here.

    Posted 21 Mar 2010 at 11:50 pm

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