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Southern
House Spider (Kukulcania hibernalis) 072108
 Thanks
to Brandon N., from northeast Texas,
for the first two photos in this set, and to Neal W., location not
disclosed, for the last photo (page 3). All are of female southern house
spiders (Kukulcania hibernalis, formerly Filistata hibernalis).
This spider is a very common occupant of homes throughout the southern
United States, where it makes crevice webs (see the cottony webbing it
makes, as shown in the photo) in closets, utility rooms, and other dark
places. The female is distinctive for its dark brown cephalothorax and
abdomen, and the contrasting pale coxae and trochanters
(the first two segments of each leg, which form the attachment to
the cephalothorax). This spider is a member of the family Filistatidae.
Filistatids are cribellate spiders, but differ from other cribellates by
having fused chelicerae. The genus Kukulcania was first applied
by Lehtinen, in 1967, to distinguish certain New World genera,
Kukulcania among them, from other spiders that had previously been
grouped under the genus Filistata. (see
Ubick et al, [2005], pg. 104-5 for additional details).
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