| identifying and misidentifying the brown recluse spider. | the brown recluse spider, loxosceles reclusa, is often implicated as a cause of necrotic skin lesions.[1-3] diagnoses are most commonly made by clinical appearance and infrequently is a spider seen, captured or identified at the time of the bite.[1, 2, 4-6] the brown recluse lives in a circumscribed area of the u.s. (the south central midwest) with a few less common recluse species living in the more sparsely-populated southwest u.s.[7] in these areas, where spider populations may be dense, recl ... | 1999 | 10673460 |