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- Submitted: Aug 17, 2025
- Photographed: Aug 15, 2025
- Spider: Herpyllus ecclesiasticus (Eastern Parson Spider)
- Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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It’s a parson spider
The quick way to see which Psrson Spider it probably is, in the US, is to click on the submiitter’s State to see which Herpyllus species is there. There’s probably range overlap, but we can’t tell them apart from a photo. They have an East / West range divide.
Eastern parson spider, one of the ground spider family