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THE FIRST ALBERTA RECORD FOR CHEIRA CANTHIUM INCLUSUM (HENTZ) (ARANEIDA: CLUBIONIDAE), WITH OBSERVATIONS ON A HUMAN BITE REACTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robin Leech  and
Thomas Maxwell Brown
Robin Leech
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3
Thomas Maxwell Brown
Affiliation:
4924-52 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 2C8
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On 27 May 1993, a normal, healthy woman in her early 30s put packages of groceries just purchased on the car seat beside her. As she sat in the driver's seat, she “…felt something painful sticking into her behind her knee.” She looked and saw something there, brushed it, but when it did not come off, she grabbed it into a soft tissue paper, and folded the paper over so the animal could not escape. She went immediately for medical assistance.

The second author, a physician, examined the animal and thought it to be a dead spider, as he could not prod it into moving (many clubionids “play dead”). However, when he put it into alcohol, it writhed violently for a few moments before dying. He sent it to the Department of Entomology, University of Alberta. The spider was determined to be a female of Cheiracanthium inclusum (Hentz, 1847), a first record for Alberta, and only the second record for Canada.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 126 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 187
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1994

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