Unidentified

Picture ID 99692

Picture of unidentified spider

Comments & ID Thoughts

This camel spider made its way back in my gear from a tour in the middle east. I lived in San Diego at the time.

  • Submitted by: 
    JazzMech
  • Submitted: Feb 21, 2020
  • Photographed: Jun 11, 2008
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: San Diego, California, United States
  • Spotted Indoors: Other
  • Found in web?: No
  • Attributes:
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TangledWeb

It’s a cool critter, quite different than the American ones that I’ve seen. It’s an arachnid, but not a spider despite the common name. If I remember correctly, it’s in order Solifugae of class Arachnida. Spiders are in order Aranae. That means it is unfortunately out of our realm of identification experience. We ID Worldwide spiders. Bugguide specializes in North American arthropods. There is still the option of iNaturalist. That is a citizen science group, like we are. It has specializations for different parts of the world that are being created. I think it works with “computer vision” doing the… Read more »