Talk:Recluse spider

"Both" genera?
From the article: "Members of both genera can live for very long times without food or water." Only one genus (Loxosceles) has been mentioned; the classification box only names one genus (Loxosceles); the opening sentence specifies that recluse spiders are from the genus Loxosceles - the whole article is about the Loxosceles genus. What is the other genus?

Also, are there any references for the effects of this spider's bite?

Wocky 18:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the other genus would be Sicarius, the only one other genus of the same family, Sicariidae. But I don't know whether spiders of this other genus are also known as recluse spiders --Extremophile (talk) 01:57, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Singelet 16:10, 16 March 2010 (SAST) What is the difference between this spider and the Brown Recluse Spider? Should these pages not be merged? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.215.240.1 (talk) 14:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

New York?
Do these spiders happen to live in the State of New York? (Slurpy121 (talk) 04:35, 3 February 2013 (UTC))