Comments & ID Thoughts
Found on floor in kitchen. Slow moving and didn't jump. Is this a young tarantula??
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- Submitted: Apr 9, 2020
- Photographed: Apr 9, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Weatherford, Oklahoma, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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From eye pattern, no not a tarantula, but you are right, it sure looks like one! Instead, I believe it is a Wolf Spider of some kind (Family Lycosidae). Possibly “Carolina Wolf Spider”, Hogna carolinensis.
https://www.mariamitchell.org/carolina-wolf-spiders-9708
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogna_carolinensis