Steatoda grossa
(False Black Widow)

Picture ID 43461

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Found this spider in my hotel room this morning in Ballantyne, Charlotte, NC. Wasn’t concerned but a coworker was bitten by a brown recluse in the same hotel last week and had to undergo two surgeries. Can anyone help me identify this?

Submitted by:
kfballantyne
Submitted: Oct 9, 2018
Photographed: Oct 9, 2018
Spider: Steatoda grossa (False Black Widow)
Sex:
Male,
Maturity:
Adult
Location: Ballantyne, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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ItsyBitsy

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October 9, 2018 8:53 am

Hi, this is a male False Black Widow (Steatoda grossa). 🙂

Also of note, unless your co-worker saw the spider that bit him/her collected or photographed it and had it IDed by someone knowledgeable odds are the wound was attributable to some other cause: http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html