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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cheiracanthiidae » Long-legged Sac Spiders (Cheiracanthium)
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Kitchen-Floor Spider - Cheiracanthium - male
Copyright © 2009 Chuck Entz

Kitchen-Floor Spider - Cheiracanthium - Male
Encino, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 7, 2009
Size: 7-8 mm (rough guess)
Found wandering on the kitchen floor. Not sure whether it hitch-hiked on some produce I bought today, or just wandered in from outside. It doesn't really look like an indoor spider. The spiky legs remind me of Lynx Spiders, but he doesn't look like any of the species I've seen around here before

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Kitchen-Floor Spider - Cheiracanthium - male Kitchen-Floor Spider - Cheiracanthium - male
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Contributed by Chuck Entz on 7 June, 2009 - 11:16pm
Last updated 16 June, 2009 - 11:47pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 16 June, 2009 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

Nice one
do you have any shots from directly above?
… Lynette Elliott, 8 June, 2009 - 12:36am login or register to post comments

 
No dorsal shots...
I forgot. I was concentrating on keeping the spider in the area covered by the (built-in) flash and not in the shadow of the lens.

I need to spend more time doing practice shots to see what angles work with the flash.
… Chuck Entz, 8 June, 2009 - 12:46am login or register to post comments

 
looks to be the same as
… Lynette Elliott, 8 June, 2009 - 12:52am login or register to post comments

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