Distribution of Brown spiders native to the United States - Loxosceles

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Copyright © 2005 Chris Wirth

Distribution of Brown spiders native to the United States - Loxosceles

This map show the range of nine of the eleven brown spiders native to the U.S.

Loxosceles apachea - Red
Loxosceles arizonica - Olive green
Loxosceles blanda - Light Blue
Loxosceles deserta - Orange
Loxosceles devia – Purple
Loxosceles kaiba - Grey
Loxosceles reclusa - Brown
Loxosceles russelli - Blue
Loxosceles sabina - Light Green

Distribution data interpreted from:
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html
http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif
http://hobospider.org/recluse.html

Contributed by Chris Wirth on 2 October, 2005 - 10:27pm
Last updated 7 October, 2005 - 9:02pm

Hi Chris,

on my monitor the area you say is brown for reclusa looks grey, which is confusing since kaiba is listed as grey.

… Lynette Schimming, 31 July, 2008 - 8:39am

Looks good

on the Info page for the genus.
One minor comment: either, put the species names first, alphabetically, followed by their colour code; or, rearrange the colour codes from west to east (or vice versa), e.g., orange - , olive green - , red - , etc.
If it was my choice I would put the most important part first followed by colour code; that would be species names followed by colour.

… Tony-2, 3 October, 2005 - 6:39am

I will move the names around. Thanks for your help!

… Chris Wirth, 3 October, 2005 - 7:18am

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