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Anyone know what kind of spider this is? (feddit.nl)

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Found this spider in Assen(NL) can anyone identify it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All good. "common names" can actually be incredibly tricky and sometimes they even differ by just geography but suddenly mean a totally different spider. Like "house spiders" mean different spiders in the US or Europe. That's why the taxanomic names are really important.

Another very good example is "daddy long legs" which can mean "cellar spider", "harvestmen" or "crane fly". Entire different families of animals even.