Comments & ID Thoughts
I believe this is a pregnant Camel Spider. At first, I couldn’t even figure out it was a spider! It’s egg sack makes it look like some other strange animal.
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- Submitted: Mar 11, 2018
- Photographed: Aug 28, 2016
- Spider: Solifugae (Wind Scorpions or Camel Spiders)
- Location: Golan Heights, Israel
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Under rock, log, or debris
- Found in web?: No
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Wow, she does look very gravid! She’s not a spider (Araneae) though, she’s an arachnid but in a different order – Solifugae (Windscorpions ).
Note to admin.: holding bin needed for Solifugae.
Thanks for the info. Should I leave this on the website anyway? Or should I remove it since this is a website about spiders?
I’d leave her, she’s still an example of a non-spider arachnid. She’s pretty neat.
That looks kind of like a Camel Spider