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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eighth Eye Blind" data-source="post: 240441" data-attributes="member: 49683">I hate to tell you this, but you joined the site and posted for the first time today in response to a thread that's six years old. The spider in that picture is long dead by now.Welcome to the forum, though!BTW, be wary of folks offering up _Phoneutria_.(Note that I'm not saying that Kaz is trying to dupe people. I would trust the identification based on Kaz's obvious experience! Which actually makes me worry about Kaz's sanity and health. ;-))However, we used to get calls in the lab from folks who thought they had a _Phoneutria_ on a regular basis. Never actually saw one. There's another genus that looks nearly identical and they get passed off or mistaken as _Phoneutria_ all the time. Kids in Brazil will sell you one of the harmless varieties for 50 Real while swearing up and down that the very spider they're holding killed 5 people in their neighborhood. Capitalism sometimes has a way of distorting reality.</blockquote>