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May be a funnel weaver?
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- Submitted: Mar 23, 2021
- Photographed: Sep 15, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Radium Springs , New Mexico, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 135261
The thicker legs look a bit more like a huntsman to me, but it’s a bit hard to tell from the photo.
I’m glad you can recognize a Huntsman from this angle, I couldn’t. Yes, I think you’re correct, Heteropoda venatoria. https://bugguide.net/node/view/6930/data I looked up BugGuide’s sightings (over about 18 yr time span), they don’t have a New Mexico sighting…but they have the nearby states.
He’s quite male, BTW.
I used to visit Texas fairly often so you get used to seeing huntsman everywhere and from all angles :P. I find it interesting that they haven’t been spotted in new Mexico, I assumed they where all over the south.
This looks like Olios giganteus. They are native to New Mexico and do have dark chelicerae like this.
There do appear to be some similarities.
I found this spider in a home where I house-sit for a man who takes frequent hunting trips, many of them in Texas. It’s possible that this spider may have crawled into his belongings somehow and hitched a ride back with him to NM.
When I first discovered this spider, I thought it was a large beetle because it had its legs tightly pulled in, almost like it was hugging itself. When I approached closer and blew on it, these longs legs slowly came out! I’ve never seen a spider do this before. Is this a typical resting behavior of this species? I agree it may be a Huntsman since it’s definitely not a web spider, and definitely NOT a wolf spider like so many of my friends – and the owner of the house – told me. I’ve seen enough wolf spiders to… Read more »