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It's the same size a common wolf spider
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- Submitted: Nov 24, 2024
- Photographed: Nov 24, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: KUTTAWA, Kentucky, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Looks to be a southern house spider, very harmless.
Kukulcania hibernalis (Southern House Spider) – Spider Identification & Pictures
My guess would be a wafer lid trapdoor spider in the genus Myrmekiaphila…..they have a very distinctive shape to their lower front legs
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251864287
The lighting is awful bad here, note the lack of the large mouth parts and long pedipalps.
Also the banding at the coxa. Just odd to find these out of their web.
Trap door spider was my first hunch till I looked closer at details.
I am pretty sure it is a wafer lid trapdoor spider…the odd shape on the 1st pair of legs is a huge clue..
Myrmekiaphila males dont always have huge mouth parts…look at this one
…https://bugguide.net/node/view/384398/bgimage
Males have long pedipalps and banded coxa too. ….The spider in the link has its pedipalps bent underneath itself like the spider in this submission ….if you look closely you can see the swollen end of its pedipalps in the shadows.
Check out the bands on this one
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1918259/bgimage
Yep, you may be right, I couldn’t get any better enhancing the image.