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Spider in a Cobcave

Postby mcar on Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:53 am

On our way to the Aglipay Caves in Quirino during our 43rd BIOTA-PHIL Annual Convention, we spotted this spider:
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Postby Darby on Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:03 pm

That looks like a tailless whip scorpion - here's a couple of comparable species -

http://people.uleth.ca/~holzmann/peru/2 ... orpion.jpg

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper ... orpion.jpg

And info, although I'm not sure how reliable -

http://www.sasionline.org/tailless/Tailless_whip.html
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Postby MichaelXY on Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:52 pm

How big was it?
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Re: Spider in a Cobcave

Postby mcar on Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:31 am

Size was around 1 to 1.5 inches.
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Postby MichaelXY on Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:28 am

Wow, must be a nice camera. My pics are always blurry when I try closeups. Good photo.
Thanks for sharing that :)
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Re: Spider in a Cobcave

Postby mcar on Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:31 am

We used a Sony camera. Wow, you did like the photo; thank you :)
Based on the links that Darby posted about the related arachnids to the spider that we spotted, the spiders have structural relationship with one another, most specially the first one.
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