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Do you know of any place where one could simply contribute? Bugguide seems to be North America only, but while I stayed in a remote area of the Indio Maiz rese

• Symbiote 6y ago
  Isn't this the primary purpose of iNaturalist?
  • throwanem 6y ago
    Yes, iNat is worldwide and that's the first place I'd try. That said, I wouldn't necessarily expect a whole lot. I'm not even an amateur arachnologist, but my sense is that spiders are about as complicated as hymenopterans, if not more so; especially outside well-known families like the salticids, it seems like it's not rare to find difficult identifications.
• pvaldes 6y ago
  > unknown spider on a banana leaf in eastern Nicaragua: https://i.imgur.com/iFMJxtl.png https://i.imgur.com/iFMJxtl.png Without having the eye arrangement is not easy, but taking in mind the habitat and shape, a member of Ctenidae would be my first candidate Compare for example with Ancylometes or Ctenus. If not, we could start weaving further from there. Zoropsidae, Lycosidae or Sparassidae (check Heteropoda venatoria for example) would be other acceptable family candidates. Those last couple of legs seem very characteristic.
  • pvaldes 6y ago
    Definitely Araneomorpha Lycosoidea, so there are ten families of interest or so. We don't have the eyes so we'll never know. Cuppiennius appears often in banana leaves, but doesn't have that strange angle in the last legs (Maybe is an abnormal specimen or an effect of the camera?).
    • cmehdy 6y ago
      The legs were definitely like that, and it's too bad I didn't get the eyes then! I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't particularly known, considering it was deep within the Indio maiz reserve (not just by the only town of Greytown but 5-10 hours by boat into the reserve from there)
      • pvaldes 6y ago
        There are thousands of candidates, and could be even a new species. The name Lycosa aragogi is already taken... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycosa_aragogi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycosa_aragogi