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Southern House Spider pic #2 - Kukulcania hibernalis - male

Southern House Spider pic #2 - Kukulcania hibernalis - Male
Cleveland, Montgomery County, Texas, USA
June 2, 2008
Size: about 4" lengthwise

Images of this individual: tag all
Southern House Spider pic #1 - Kukulcania hibernalis Southern House Spider pic #2 - Kukulcania hibernalis - male Southern House Spider pic #3 - Kukulcania hibernalis

Moved
Moved from Spiders.

Brown Recluse vs. Kukulcania
Hi Amber, I hope you don't mind I replaced your dorsal shot (it was pretty fuzzy anyway) with this copy of your other shot and added an arrow to it. This arrow shows you a quick way to distinguish Kukulcania from a brown recluse. Kukulcania has very long pedipals. The things that the green arrow points to. Compare with the pedipals on the recluse here....

 
Thank you!
Thank you very, very much! No I don't mind at all... I'm so happy you could clear this up for me because this spider does look deceptively like the Recluses' to my untrained eye. I'm glad I didn't harm the spider. What do they eat by the way, this spider was huge! Does it eat other spiders?

 
Diet of Kukulcania
Adult males don't eat much of anything -- they are primarily interested in finding mates.

Females and juveniles will eat just about anything they can catch in their webs. The most common bugs I find in their webs are beetles, roaches, and moths. I have also seen dead wasps in their webs.

 
they eat bugs and spiders
In fact, one of the few shots I have of Kukulcania is of one catching a male black widow. See this shot.

 
Moving to the guide
Click on Tag All. This time Lynette has given you a link in her last comment to a particular Kukulcania. So when you click on the link you can read in the blue text at the top that you are at K. hibernalis. Your image, however, is only ID'd to genus. So you have a new step this time. In the blue taxonomy at the top, click on the link to Kukulcania and you will be taken to the genus info page. Click on Images and move tagged images and you will have moved your images to the genus page. If later on your spider is recognized as hibernalis, you can tag and move it to the species page. Hope all this is working for you. Let us know if there is a problem.

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