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brown recluse spider

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

brown recluse spider or violin spider, poisonous nocturnal spider , Loxoceles reclusa, most common in the SE and S central United States. Adults are 3/8 in. (10 mm) long and are light brown with a dark, violin-shaped mark on the back near the head. In humans their venom kills the tissue surrounding a bite and leaves a deep sore, but only rarely does a bite result in death.

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