What was that ugly brown spider? Was it a Brown Recluse?

Brown recluse spiders can be confused with many other kinds of spiders, causing needless concern. Spiders of their genus, Loxoceles, are characterized by having three pairs of eyes, and by having a very distinct violin pattern on their cephalothorax. Their legs can look like bent paper clips, no one of which may line up with another. Loxoceles spiders have haywire legs.




Coras medicinalis PEM
Clubiona tanikawa
Ctenus exlineae from Wiki Commons
Loxosceles reclusa adult male 3 from Wiki Commons
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Photographer: Patrick Edwin Moran
Photographer: Akio Tanikawa
Photographer: Marshal Hedin
Photographer: Matt Brott
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See whether you can identify the Brown Recluse in this lineup, and then press here to see whether you've got it right or not.