» The official BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER - IDENTIFICATION
The Brown Recluse Spider, as its name indicates, has the ability of hiding at your homes in the darkest and smallest places it can find. |
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The loxoceles reclusa, also well-known as brown recluse spider, or violin spider, is a small size arachnid; it measures approximately 7-12mm (1/4" - 1/2') long. The brown recluse spider color is generally brown, its body showing a peculiar cephalothorax with a dark brown spot in a violin form; the legs are light brown and the abdomen, of an oval aspect, is dark brown, yellow, or greenish yellow. The most important characteristic is the existence of 3 pairs of eyes in the cephalothorax. Normally, all the spiders have 4 pairs, 8 altogether. |
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This arachnid benefits itself from the human contact; this type of animal relation is called “synanthropic” » wikipedia.org : Synanthropes are animals who/which are not domesticated but live in the vicinity of humans. Deriving from the terms synthetic (made of parts/artificial), and/or syn (synonymous to) and anthro (from the Greek word andros meaning man). The whole term would translate into something like: "a through nature artificially constructed human"».
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