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The main purpose of a page such as the current one is to provide information on the names currently in use in the most convenient form thus the list of families, genera, and species are presented in alphabetic order. The following list of families is adapted from the list provided in the World Spider Catalog Version 16.

Please direct these questions to Richard Bradley. The committee is most interested in receiving suggestions or corrections. As a version of each family list becomes available at this site its name will be highlighted indicating a link to the draft list. The list has been compiled by a committee of volunteer contributors of the American Arachnological Society (Spiders of North America Check-list Committee). This page is an attempt to provide a list of valid names for the spiders (Araneae) which occur in North America north of Mexico. Tarantulas - Wikipedia entry on Tarantulas )īlack Widow - Wikipedia entry on Black Widow Spiders (Source: Identifying and Misidentifying the Brown Recluse Spider. In some states such as California, unsubstantiated reports concerning recluse spider bites have taken on the status of 'urban legend' leading to overdiagnosis and, therefore, inappropriate treatment. However, outside the natural range of these recluse species, the conviction that they are the etiological agents behind necrotic lesions of unknown origin is widespread, and most often erroneous. In these areas, where spider populations may be dense, recluse spiders may be a cause of significant morbidity. (the south central Midwest) with a few less common recluse species living in the more sparsely-populated southwest U.S. The brown recluse lives in a circumscribed area of the U.S. Diagnoses are most commonly made by clinical appearance and infrequently is a spider seen, captured or identified at the time of the bite.

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The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is often implicated as a cause of necrotic skin lesions. Other spiders may also cause a slight allergic reaction at the site of a bite, with some redness and swelling.īrown Recluse - Follow this link if you are you worried that a particular spider might be a brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) Tarantulas are relatively harmless though people can have an allergic reaction to their bite. There are only two venomous spiders of any significance in the continental U.S., the Brown Recluse and the Black Widow.

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