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.
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- 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:
Not a recluse (you were right about the eye pattern). Not sure what it is though.
I think this is a long-bodied cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. They’re harmless.