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Found in southeast Idaho but my husband travels a lot for work….latest trip was to Huntsville, Alabama. I’m wondering if he hitched a ride home in my husbands luggage…
Found this little guy in my living room. It’s super fast. I think it’s Castianeira longipalpa. Google lens says it’s a Chilean Recluse (I don’t believe google). Took him to the extension office and was told it was a pill bug spider, not so sure I believe that either.
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- Submitted: Sep 9, 2024
- Photographed: Sep 8, 2024
- Spider: Castianeira longipalpa
- Location: Rigby, Idaho, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Apr 19, 2025
Apr 19, 2025
Cumming, 
I will go with Castianeria genus. Certainly not a recluse nor a woodlouse hunter.
Species Castianeira longipalpus – BugGuide.Net
@Whitli Skepticism is good. Google knows where you live, but it doesn’t combine location info with photos in the Google Lens app. I used to work for an equivalent of an extension office ( pre world wide web) and we just looked in ID books and went with the best guess. I had to do that quickly because sometimes the person who brought in a specimen was going into a full-blown phobia panic in our office. My coworkers usually left i up to me to be the person who handled the, “They’re trying to murder me!” clients of all kinds… Read more »
Hi @TangledWeb …that sounds like a tough job. Did you notice that the first of the additional pictures below isn’t actually Castianeira…its a Sergiolus spp. It may be a computer glitch