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Description:

Orange & gray spider type thing

Habitat:

Southern Arizona

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John La Salle
John La Salle 11 years ago

These are variously known as camel spiders, wind scorpions, sun spiders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
I think this one is in the family Solpugidae
These are very fast - so nice getting a picture.

LaurenMoreno
Spotted by
LaurenMoreno

Arizona, USA

Spotted on Sep 6, 2012
Submitted on Sep 7, 2012

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