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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Trachelidae » Trachelas
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Sowbug Killer or Brown Recluse? - Trachelas
Copyright © 2008 Lee Saborio

Sowbug Killer or Brown Recluse? - Trachelas
Milan, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
September 23, 2008
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Contributed by Lee Saborio on 23 September, 2008 - 7:54pm
Last updated 24 August, 2009 - 10:49pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 24 August, 2009 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

and not Dysdera either
from here it looks like eight eyes,
and those chelicera...
how about more toward Clubionid?
… erichedwards, 23 September, 2008 - 9:11pm login or register to post comments

 
I've got a new reference guide
Trachelas tranquillus?
… Lee Saborio, 1 February, 2009 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Possibly
If we can be sure of Trachelas (eye positions do seem like a match), then T. tranquillus would be the most likely species since, according to Platnick and Shadab, it's the only one recorded in Michigan.
… Jay Barnes, 2 February, 2009 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

 
You're probably right
I obviously didn't look close enough.
… Jay Barnes, 23 September, 2008 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Trachelas?
We're getting a fair share of images of things resembling Trachelas right now.
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 September, 2008 - 2:15am login or register to post comments

Not a recluse
and no Loxosceles spiders have ever been reported in the entire state of Michigan.

Pretty sure this is Dysdera crocata.
… Jay Barnes, 23 September, 2008 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

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