Photo 2828401, (c) Melanie Schuchart, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Melanie Schuchart

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What

South American Toothed Hacklemesh Weaver (Metaltella simoni)

Observer

butterflies4fun

Date

December 30, 2015 10:42 AM CST

Description

Spider roaming around the house and found in the sink. Thought it might be a brown recluse but have learned that is the most mis-identified spider.

Definitely a male as state below: The male spider has an enlarged pair of pedipalps, sometimes resembling a pair of arms with boxing gloves on. In many species, you can easily identify a male because of his enlarged, rounded pedipalps, which he uses to transfer sperm to the female during mating

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