Mystery Spider

I found one that looks EXACTL

I found one that looks EXACTLY like the one in Mamata Polle's picture on my bed... It's a good thing I noticed it because if I didn't it would of bit me for stepping on it or something. I captured it and studied it up close. It crawls slowly and actually is relatively calm when being moved around in a little box, it did of course freak out when it felt the sound waves from my voice... or maybe it was the air blowing. These guys aren't poisonous, right? It is a sort of ground spider and from what I've read they aren't poisonous. I agree with others it seems to be like that Camilia that's on this site... it just looks different because of the florescent lighting. Anyway, off to releasing it back to the wild now.

… comatosevessel, 3 May, 2012 - 8:36pm

Hmmm

Could she be Haplodrassus bicornis?
Be Well and God Bless

… Mamata Polle, 26 February, 2012 - 3:53am

I don't know

it doesn't seem to match this one

I was thinking something more like Camillina.

… Lynette Elliott, 2 March, 2012 - 9:16am

You're right!

I was thinking in colors rather than form, I suppose thats a common newbie mistake? The dark spot in the middle of the cephalothorax, (Is that what people call the fovea?) is present in the Camillina Pulchra photo and my photo, but not in the H. Bicornis photo. Also his legs seem a bit long to me, but I just thought it was because he's male.
I think you're right, but I'm just not good enough yet to figure it out from exuvia or dead specimens... there so few photos of either Camilina or Bicornis?
Thanks, Be Well and God Bless!

P.S.
Hmmm, just noticed that Mystery has a very dark and shiny abdomen, and the C. Pulchra's abdomen may not be shiny, but is just as dark. (The lack of shine could be the photo.) But the H. Bicornis seems to have a gray abdomen with... I think that's a very fine layer of hair?

… Mamata Polle, 3 March, 2012 - 3:25am

shiny

Yes I agree with the shiny comment. I wondered about that too. I'm not sure how the dead specimen was photographed. First it might look different just because it's dead & second it might have been photographed under liquid or after being stored in alcohol. I wouldn't move your spider to that genus based on this guess until we can see some live specimens.

The fovea is a depression. So in the case of the dead spider it has a foveal groove in the center of the carapace. Also you could be right about the male having longer legs than the female. That is very common in spiders.

… Lynette Elliott, 3 March, 2012 - 10:53am

Moved

Moved from Spiders.

… Lynette Elliott, 24 February, 2012 - 8:50am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Lynette Elliott, 22 February, 2012 - 10:32pm

ground spider I'd guess

I'm not sure which genus though. We might figure it out some day.

… Lynette Elliott, 22 February, 2012 - 10:32pm