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Species Urozelotes rusticus

Ground Spider from SoCal - Urozelotes rusticus - male

Dark Red Ground Spider (Ghaphosid) - Urozelotes rusticus

Ground spider found in house - Urozelotes rusticus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders)

Genus Urozelotes

Species rusticus (Urozelotes rusticus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

(L. Koch, 1872)

Size

Males: ~6.5 mm(1)

Females: ~6.7 mm(1)

Identification

Palp

Range

This synanthropic species is not native to North America but could be found wherever people are. Isolated records have been found across the U.S. and Ontario.(1)

Habitat

Most frequently taken from buildings(1)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the spider genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) Norman Platnick & John Murphy. 1984. American Museum Novitates 2792: 1-30.

Contributed by John Sloan on 2 July, 2010 - 2:07pm
Additional contributions by cheins
Last updated 18 March, 2023 - 7:10pm

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