Unidentified

Picture ID 28519

Picture of unidentified spider

Comments & ID Thoughts

I have a whole bunch of these guys living in my house in western Philadelphia.
I think that they might be recluses, I am worried that they are in fact brown recluses.

What has me confused is that these seem to have 3 sets of 3 eyes each instead of 3 sets of 2.

Note that this spider does have 8 legs, one was lost in the process of capturing it and putting it on the microscope.

  • Submitted by: 
    sfeine
  • Submitted: Aug 15, 2018
  • Photographed: Aug 14, 2018
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
  • Found in web?: Yes
  • Attributes:
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PAlmoni

Not a recluse (you were right about the eye pattern). Not sure what it is though.

Tequilamockingbird

I think this is a long-bodied cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. They’re harmless.