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Laniatores - Erebomaster acanthinus

Laniatores - Erebomaster acanthinus
Duke University, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
Duke University offers a course "The Diversity of Life" currently taught by Dr. Alexander Motten. I was his TA for several years while I was in grad school. One of the annual activities is collecting invertebrates from leaf litter using a Burlese Funnel. One year this monster showed up! This photo shows the distinctive body shape of this suborder, more pear-like; the other two show the other distinctive feature, the formidable pedipalps. I took the photos by holding the lens of my camera, an Olympus pocket digital, up to the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope.

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Laniatores chelicerae and pedipalps - Erebomaster acanthinus Laniatores pedipalps - Erebomaster acanthinus Laniatores - Erebomaster acanthinus

Location?
I just wanted to double check and see if Durham County, North Carolina was the location collected or the University or both?

 
Both
The university is in Durham, but the soil samples which were put into the funnels, in which this beast was found, were collected on campus, just outside the Biological Sciences Building.

Moved
Moved from Erebomaster.

Moved
Moved from Cladonychiidae.

 
ID
Thanks for pegging this critter as far as you have, Marshal! Can you share how one identifies these beasts to the genus or at least family?

Moved
Moved from Laniatores.

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