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Family Sicariidae - Recluse Spiders

Our First Loxosceles. - Loxosceles - female

Brown Recluse Spider - Loxosceles - male

Brown Recluse - Loxosceles reclusa - female

AZ brown spider, not l. reclusa but perhaps l. arizonica or l. deserta? - Loxosceles - male

Brown Recluse spiderling - Loxosceles reclusa

Brown reclusive aka Fiddleback spider - Loxosceles reclusa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Haplogynes)

Family Sicariidae (Recluse Spiders)

See Also

~ Genus Kukulcania

~ Genus Titiotus

Contributed by Christopher Hunt on 14 September, 2005 - 10:08am
Additional contributions by Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck
Last updated 6 June, 2009 - 11:01am

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