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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae) » Psilochorus » Psilochorus hesperus
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Aranerae 6.15.09 03a - Psilochorus hesperus
Copyright © 2009 Karl Volkman

Aranerae 6.15.09 03a - Psilochorus hesperus
Mt Elizabeth, Ferry County, Washington, USA
June 15, 2009
Size: 1.5cm with legs
One of a number of small very long legged spiders living in a shale talus slope

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Aranerae 6.15.09 03a - Psilochorus hesperus Aranerae 6.15.09 03b - Psilochorus hesperus Psilochorus hesperus 6.15.09 01c - Psilochorus hesperus
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 7 July, 2009 - 12:27am
Last updated 7 July, 2009 - 8:16pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 7 July, 2009 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

From Rod Crawford
"This would have to be Psilochorus hesperus, one of the two native
Pholcids in our state. The other, Pholcophora americana, is much
shorter-legged.

Note that this is one of the hundreds of harmless American spiders
that has a "brown recluse violin" on the carapace, thus helping to
nullify the myth that you can identify spiders by such "markings.""
… Lynette Elliott, 7 July, 2009 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Closer images?
So, it seems there is no need to collect it, but some closer-up/larger images would also be welcome -- especially the profile. :-)

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 8 July, 2009 - 12:15am login or register to post comments

Pholcidae...
Interesting! Definitely a member of the Pholcidae. Reminds, actually a good deal of R.J.'s Artema atlanta species that he posted. He doesn't have any dorsal images, but Bernard Huber, from the Uni-Bonn, does, and the similarity is rather good, IMO. Any chance you could collect one of these for use? (But first maybe Lynette has an opinion, or can get a comment from Rod C.?)

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 7 July, 2009 - 3:27am login or register to post comments

 
Possible
I could probably find a couple of specimens for study if you want some. They seemed rather common at the site a couple of weeks ago but thing change as time progresses and waiting for replies from Rod may mean missing the spiders.

I should collect the specimens soon as I will be heading west of the mountains for the BG gathering this weekend and am not sure wne I will be able to get back to the site.
… Karl Volkman, 7 July, 2009 - 3:52am login or register to post comments

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