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Recluse spider from New Orleans - Loxosceles rufescens - female
Copyright © 2012 Mark Fox

Recluse spider from New Orleans - Loxosceles rufescens - Female
Audubon Zoo, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
September 14, 2012
Size: 7mm
I was given two live Loxosceles specimens today, collected by a Tulane student who volunteers at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. I'll preserve them and try to refine the ID to L. rufescens or L. reclusa, but for now I am keeping them alive.

The female isn't much smaller-bodied than the male, as I first thought, but her body:leg size ratio is different (shorter legs). Also, her abdomen is much darker, and her fiddle-back is much less pigmented. I expect them both to be L. rufescens, but I'm very curious nevertheless.
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Contributed by Mark Fox on 14 September, 2012 - 8:50pm
Last updated 3 April, 2018 - 12:22am

Moved
Moved from Brown Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 3 April, 2018 - 12:22am login or register to post comments

Here's the male from the same site, date.
… Mark Fox, 14 September, 2012 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

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