# Can you ID the spider from the vague description?

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**Created:** [May 11, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-the-spider-from-the-vague-description/174491 "2003-05-11T13:48:53Z")
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### Author: ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-the-spider-from-the-vague-description/174491/1 "2003-05-11T13:48:53Z")

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OK, I think it was a spider, at least an arachnid, but here goes the description:

Color: the prosoma was black. The opisthosoma, orange \* and was sometimes carried up at a 90º angle\*. The terminal segments/joints of the front legs were a light, light orangish color. The rest were all black.

Body: Prosoma and opisthosoma were longish and roughly the same size. About as thick as a match and as long as my thumbnail ('bout ½ inch). The pedipalps looked really long. It seemed to walk like a \*daddy-longlegs; i.e., with the joints of the legs higher than the body.

It was just ambling around on a vine. There was no evidence of a web.

Anyone??? I’m not an entymologist, and at times like this it really bugs me.

\*Or like the mechanical spider on Jonny Quest that was operated by the evil Dr. Zin.

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### Author: ![digitalskeeza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@digitalskeeza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digitalskeeza)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-the-spider-from-the-vague-description/174491/2 "2003-05-12T06:45:00Z")

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How bout [this one](http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/trachelas_tran.jpg)?

Or, closer to your description,[this one](http://140.211.62.101/Action.Lasso?-database=Photo%20Catalog&-layout=Form%20View&-response=catalog%2fdetail.html&-recid=70&-search) (red striped jumping spider)?

Try [arachnology.org](http://www.arachnology.org) to see if you can find it, and GOOD LUCK. It became very tedious very quickly, mostly due to the _ton_ of rather disorganized info on that site…