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Found this guy on my bed, walking across the sheet. It was found sometime after midnight after I had brought folded laundry from the laundry room. My partner had cleaned out the shed today, perhaps he came across it while doing so. Looks like it could be a broad-faced sac spider (scientific name: TRACHELAS TRANQUILLUS.)
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- Submitted: Jul 28, 2025
- Photographed: Jul 28, 2025
- Spider: Trachelas
- Location: Las Vegas , New Mexico, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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Help identify this spider
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019
There are more than one species in the genus in New Mexico https://bugguide.net/node/view/26206 They can’t be reliably identified to species by photo. I’m pretty sure it isn’t T. tranquillus. Thanks for working on the ID. It has odd legs, particularly the tarsii, for the genus. The link I included has range info. You need an account ( free) with their site to see all ranges. They’re trying to block getting scrubbed by bots. Broad-faced sac spiders live in dark damp cool places. Shed or laundry room? Could be either.