Sunspider

Ok, let me see if I can get this to make sense. Within the kingdom Animalia, we will look at the phylum of Arthropoda. Arthropoda includes insects, arachnids, myriapods (millipedes/centipedes), and crustaceans. Within that, we go down to arachnids. There are 11 extant orders of arachnids. Spiders are their own order, as are scorpions, harvestmen, solifugids (what you have here), pseudoscorpions, and more. So all of these groups are arachnids, but as you see, spiders and solifugids are separate orders within the class Arachnida. So they are related, but are very different things. Here's a link that explains it too: http://www.solpugid.com/Introduction.htm

Again, not a spider. They are an arachnid, but they are a completely separate order of arachnid than spiders are. Just as your quote says, they are an arachnid, a relative of a spider. That does not make them a spider. So, again, please remove this from the "International Spider Survey" mission as this is NOT a spider.

I have removed this from the "International Spider Survey" mission as this is not a spider.

Hi hilfire, I have removed your ID suggestion as there is no need to suggest an ID on your own spotting :) Simply click the "edit this spotting" button in the upper right and enter in the information there. Let us know if you need any help doing this!

This cool Arachnid is called a Solifugid. They are also called Windscorpions, Sun Spiders or Camel Spiders but they are not scorpions or spiders. They are not venomous but they can bite in self defense. They are predatory. http://bugguide.net/node/view/7570 http://bugguide.net/node/view/7570/bgpage

solifuge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae