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Found walking across kitchen floor :) Abdomen is a light brown color, not really grey. I was thinking possibly Trachelas tranquillus, or “bulls head sac spider”?? but I’m not too sure. If you could figure it out please help! My partner wouldn’t stop screaming
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- Submitted: Apr 20, 2022
- Photographed: Apr 20, 2022
- Spider: Trachelas
- Sex:
Male, - Location: Austin , Texas, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Help identify this spider
Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019
Omaha, nebraska , 
Not sure why this one posted twice.
It’s just a glitch that happens from time to time on this site. As for the spider, I agree with your ID. Definitely a Trachelas sp..
https://bugguide.net/node/view/26206 I’m going to file it to the genus taxon because there are a few Trachelas species that can range into Texas. I check how the moderators at Bugguide.net file photos and take their lead because their site has done this about 14 years longer than our site has. To see range statistics on BugGuide you may need to have an account and log in first. They do this to block some data scraping, which slows the functioning of their site. Using their “Info” section on the genus you might be able to come up with a good guess (we’re… Read more »