It was black and its body was about an inch long. It had a white stripe down it's back (not a fiddle or an hourglass, but an actual skunk stripe). It wasn't fuzzy and its body was rather large in proportion to its legs (which were short and thick) , especialy the back end of it which was big and round with two pinchers.
I live in Arizona so it would presumably be some sort of desert thing but I've never even heard of a black spider with a white skunk stripe... What the heck was it?
2007-02-22 10:46:05 · 5 answers · asked by Dysthymia 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I don't think it was a tarantula since it was hairless and much too small. Unless baby tarantula's are hairless?
2007-02-22 10:50:39 · update #1
It pretty much looked exactly like a black widow but with a white skunk stripe down its back.
2007-02-22 10:51:45 · update #2
Might be a Parson Spider. There is a link I will add in here and you go look at it. Looks like what you might be describing?
http://www.spiderzrule.com/commonspidersusa.htm
2007-02-22 10:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could be a Western Black Widow:
http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/spiders/west_widow.html
If not, here's a website that has many links for spider identification, good luck!
http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Pestcontrol.html
2007-02-22 11:05:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jane D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could have just been a different species of black widow, they don't all have the hour glass, the ones in australia just have a red stripe.
2007-02-22 13:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Tim C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most definitley a species of jumping spider.i caught one once and kept it as a pet. you can feed it small inse cts 2 times a week.
2007-02-22 13:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by FGH 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type of tarantula?
2007-02-22 10:48:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋