First time seeing it outside of Round Valley, which was actually quite nearby.
Adult female found under a granite rock in chaparral
I actually went back to photograph this spider, so I'm glad I found a couple, and doubly glad I found a mature male.
Plectreurid spiders (family Plectreuridae) belong to a small family confined to the North American deserts and the island of Cuba. Only two genera are known - the nominate genus Plectreurys and Kibramoa. These ecribellate (lacking a plate-like wooly silk-producing structure anterior to the spinnerets on the venter), haplogyne spiders build haphazard webs under rocks and dead cacti. Relatively little is known of their biology. Unlike the sicariids, scytodids and diguetids, to which they are related, they...
