I’d expect proportionally shorter legs and more of a pointed bracket pattern on the abdomen for E. agrestis. Might be E. atrica, Europe has a few options I’m not familiar with. I don’t know which is most common in Belgium. Because of the relatively recent reversal of the species synonymy some sites that are for the most part reliable haven’t updated to correct for examples that are no longer considered to be atrica.
On i Naturalist I tried to identify something as atrica recently and it said error or that it was no longer in use or something but perhaps it isn’t updated.
That’s odd. There are E. atrica listed there, it looks up to date. I wanted to try it out for myself but didn’t find one quickly that I wanted to suggest to species. Corrected a few misfiles though.
https://spideridentifications.com/desert-recluse.html Have you seen this website. I think it is too close to the name of our site. It isn’t a substantial site, a few factoids and loads of ads. We have a copyright lawyer who I think should be consulted. I don’t want our site to be confused with that one nor for that site to make ad revenue off of the reputation of this site.
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Almost looks like E. agrestis (Hobo spider) with its light coloration
I’d expect proportionally shorter legs and more of a pointed bracket pattern on the abdomen for E. agrestis. Might be E. atrica, Europe has a few options I’m not familiar with. I don’t know which is most common in Belgium. Because of the relatively recent reversal of the species synonymy some sites that are for the most part reliable haven’t updated to correct for examples that are no longer considered to be atrica.
E. atrica is a species again (for now).
E. atrica remained a species through it all, the issue was that E. duellica and E. saeva were being called E. atrica also.
On i Naturalist I tried to identify something as atrica recently and it said error or that it was no longer in use or something but perhaps it isn’t updated.
That’s odd. There are E. atrica listed there, it looks up to date. I wanted to try it out for myself but didn’t find one quickly that I wanted to suggest to species. Corrected a few misfiles though.
https://spideridentifications.com/desert-recluse.html Have you seen this website. I think it is too close to the name of our site. It isn’t a substantial site, a few factoids and loads of ads. We have a copyright lawyer who I think should be consulted. I don’t want our site to be confused with that one nor for that site to make ad revenue off of the reputation of this site.
No, I hadn’t seen that one before. It looked different enough to me, but I don’t make websites.
I think it is new, the content is completely different, I think the name is too close.