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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Spitting Spiders (Scytodidae) » Scytodes » Scytodes fusca
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Unknown 6-eyed spider - Scytodes fusca
Copyright © 2015 Susan Leach Snyder

Unknown 6-eyed spider - Scytodes fusca
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
November 17, 2015
Size: 1.75 mm

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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 29 November, 2015 - 4:25pm
Last updated 9 April, 2017 - 8:44am

Moved
Moved from Scytodes.
… Bob Biagi, 9 April, 2017 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Laura P., 29 November, 2015 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
very much for the ID, Laura. I thought this one looked a lot like another Scytodes you identified for me. But the eye arrangement is different.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 30 November, 2015 - 6:37am login or register to post comments

 
Oh yeah ...
I think you may have mistaken hair follicles for some of the eyes on these. The lateral eyes on Scytodes are so close together they can look like one eye:


I remember seeing a paper with lots of good diagrams for the carapace design on these, maybe it can be narrowed down further. I'll check and see if I can find out more.

Edit: I feel silly for not noticing that before.
Edit #2: I looked and didn't see a match I'm confident of unless it's some variant of S. thoracica. The "V" on the other looks distinctive. Will take another look and go through more options later.
… Laura P., 30 November, 2015 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

 
Yep,
I think you are correct. I just posted the same image without the spheres over what I thought were the eyes for the most recent spider, and the most posterior "eyes" appear to be circles in the carapace design. I'll go back and examine the other spider too.

I just checked the other spider and I think I correctly identified those eyespots… but I am certainly not an expert.

… Susan Leach Snyder, 30 November, 2015 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
The other lateral eyes ...
are visible under where you've highlighted ... sort of like:
… Laura P., 30 November, 2015 - 1:00pm login or register to post comments

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