Spider identifier
You want to know before getting closer. A photo does exactly that.
Arachnids trigger more searches than any other group relative to their species count — because the question is rarely pure curiosity. SafaRoll answers from a distance: shoot from across the room, get the species and its group.
How do you identify a spider without getting close?
A photo taken from two or three metres is enough for SafaRoll to return the species. That is exactly the point of image identification for this group: the question "what spider is this" is almost always asked before anyone wants to get closer. The model returns a species name and its group — spider, tick, harvestman, scorpion — from the silhouette, the abdomen pattern and the posture of the legs. Identification is a statistical estimate, not medical advice: if a bite is painful, swollen or comes with a fever, see a doctor whatever species the app reported.
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On a spider on the ceiling, before deciding whether to put it outside.
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On a tick spotted after a walk in the woods.
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On a web found in the garden, to learn who spun it.
25 species · spiders
Commonest firstYellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
Western Black Widow
Latrodectus hesperus
Pantropical Jumping Spider
Plexippus paykulli
Radiated Wolf Spider
Hogna radiata
Six-spotted Orbweaver
Araniella displicata
Common Spitting Spider
Scytodes thoracica
Yucatán Rust-rump Tarantula
Tliltocatl epicureanus
Brazilian Wandering Spider
Phoneutria nigriventer
Flying Peacock Spider
Maratus volans
Ogre-faced Spider
Deinopis spinosa
European Water Spider
Argyroneta aquatica
Faucheux
Trogulus nepaeformis
Brocca's Jumping Spider
Corythalia broccai
Southern Black Widow
Latrodectus mactans
Slender Brown Scorpion
Centruroides gracilis
House Pseudoscorpion
Chelifer cancroides
Common Yellow Scorpion
Buthus occitanus
Five-spotted star-web spider
Uroctea durandi
European Black Widow
Latrodectus tredecimguttatus
Purseweb Spider
Atypus affinis
Asian Blue Forest Scorpion
Javanimetrus cyaneus
Variegated Lynx Spider
Oxyopes heterophthalmus
European Yellow-tailed Scorpion
Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis
Common Emperor Scorpion
Pandinus imperator
Goliath Birdeater
Theraphosa blondi
What people often ask
Indirectly. The shape of the web — orb, sheet, funnel — points to a family, and SafaRoll will identify it if the web is recognisable, but the answer is far more reliable with the animal in frame.
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