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I’m not sure if this is classified as a spider but it looks very interesting, my friend who has lived in the amazon for many years had guessed it may be some what related to a whip scorpion spider but we were all scratching our heads trying to find out what it is, any ID’s or leads on what this could be are greatly appreciated.
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- Submitted: Oct 25, 2024
- Photographed: Oct 24, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Cusco, Peru
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
It’s an Arachnid. It might be a Harvestman, Class Arachnida > order Opiliones. It has 8 legs Note the leg 4 spurs. It appears to have swollen pedipalps. Male Opiliones don’t mate with their palps ( Spiders do), so I don’t know why they would be swollen. It also has lateral spurs and one posterior spur ( or ” spine”). The feet vary. I might even be a spider. Thank you for posting it, it’s interesting! We’ll keep working on it. Please let us know if you get an snswer elsewhere.
It’s definitely pachylinae of some sort to my knowledge, I think the exact type seems to be pinpointed now but it’s always possible to be a completely different variation of what Nod has suggested: “Acrographinotus Ortizi”, I’m not sure if elevation where I am has something to do with the swelling of the pedipalps, maybe I’m simply overlooking that factor, either way this was an extremely interesting find, it was right outside the door going back onto the grass, I almost missed it as I walked past it before it was pointed out to me, Peru is full of interesting… Read more »
I agree with Tangledweb that it is an opilione. It is probably one of the Gonyleptid Harvestmen…… Family Gonyleptidae…there’s a lot of very dramatic looking opiliones in this family….it may be this one
Acrographinotus ortizi
I was today days old when i learned about these so I can’t be totally certain
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75516848
Thanks for posting
this is the the furthest I’ve got so far, thank you️
Subfamily Pachylinae. An Opiliones. There are 6 or more species in Peru. This is very similar to Acrographinotus ortizi. I think the palps are just made that way. Looking at the legs, all the tibias have a odd swollen appearance. Perhaps this is true of the palps as well.