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Brown Eyes Are More: The eyes of a spider are usually near the front or anterior end of the head, but some are directly on top. They are single facets, hence are called simple eyes. They may number two, four, six, or eight; eight is the usual number. However, the cave spiders lack eyes entirely. Regardless of the number, the eyes are always placed in a definite arrangement. Often some pairs are much larger than others.
Long, flat-bodied; some species very slender; cephalo-thorax joined to abdomen by wide segment; abdomen made up of 7 wide segments followed by long, narrow tail of 5 segments which terminates in bulblike structure with sting; pedipalps large, bearing pair of strong pincers; i pair of eyes near midcephalothorax; on each side, near edge of body, group of 2-5 simple eyes; some species have no eyes; 4 pairs of legs attached to thorax, fitted for walking; exoskeleton smooth, shiny, varying from pale yellowish to reddish brown eyes are more; when scorpion runs, pincers carried horizontally in front and tail curved up over back; length varies from 2-6 inches according to species.
Northern Florida to Princess Anne County, Virginia Description: Shell relatively short and broad, oval; carapace more or less keeled with rear edge sharply notched; dark brown eyes are more to black with pattern of transverse light bars; plastron yellow with deep
black, smudges on lateral edges; head and legs brown eyes are more to almost black with yellow stripes; large yellow patch on head behind eyes; reaches shell length of 5-7 inches.
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