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Found this spider in the bathtub. I don't know where he has been hiding! Maybe he crawled out of the overflow drain?
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- Submitted: Apr 30, 2018
- Photographed: Apr 29, 2018
- Spider: Zoropsidae (False Wolf Spiders)
- Sex:
Male, - Maturity:Adult
- Location: Camarillo, CA, California, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Lateral
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May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019
Scotts Valley, 
This thing was huge! A good 2.5 inches across! I see some similar spiders on here but they have short back legs. This one seems to be all equal.
Hi, no much to work with here, looks to be a male, possibly one of the Agelenidae family like grass house spiders.Little guy seems to have lost a leg.
Thank you. I apologize for the poor picture. It looks a lot like a brown recluse to me, but I keep reading that they are not in California, especially this far west. I hope you are correct.
Hi.Well,the carapace(body segment) does not have the shape of Loxoceles spiders. If your size guess is close,this would also be very large for recluse Brown recluse refers to Loxoceles reclusa, species specific. There are in fact at least two species of violin spider in California, the desert recluse in imperial county, and a small population of tropical recluse, Loxoceles rufesens in San Diego county. Up around Big Pine, populations of unknown species of violin spider have been found. The good side is it seems these are not synanthropic( associated with human habitat) as such, there are no reports of bites… Read more »
Thank you very much for your time and comments Dan.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This looks like one of the False Wolf Spiders (Zoropsidae), compare to this male Titiotus (there are other similar genera in the family, not sure which this is): https://bugguide.net/node/view/1231037/bgimage
Thank you. It looks a lot like that too.