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Found on the wall near the ceiling of my apartment on the second floor. I’ve never seen a web. The spider is reddish/brown. Including its legs, maybe 1-2 inch big?
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- Submitted: Sep 26, 2021
- Photographed: Sep 26, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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This is interesting. I feel like this one should be easy, but I’m at a loss. @TangledWeb @LocalEntomologist
My guess is Cithaeron Praedonius based on google searches, but I have absolutely no idea. It usually just shows up high on the wall and chills there for hours, then it disappears for a couple days/weeks before showing up again.
It does look like a possibilty. I can’t tell if your spider is pinkish. My vague impression of it is a male Heteropoda venatoria, a Huntsman. The males have big dark markings in the head area. Heteropoda= different feet. Your spiders’s feet appear to point in different directions. That gives the spider a speed a advantage for rotating its body to run toward prey in any direction because one foot is always at the best angle to push off of. They don’t need webs when they have size and speed. The ceiling/wall junction seems to be a choice spot for… Read more »