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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?
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- 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
Apr 23, 2020
Apr 23, 2020
Wilsonville, 
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