Unidentified

Picture ID 48188

Picture of unidentified spider

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I found this little guy drowning in an open can of beer that my parents had left open in the living room all night. He's very fuzzy on top and seems to have eight eyes - Two big ones on top, two medium ones in the middle and four tiny ones on the bottom. I found one picture that said it was a brown recluse and thought I'd head here to see if that's correct.

  • Submitted by: 
    Xxi
  • Submitted: Nov 12, 2018
  • Photographed: Nov 12, 2018
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Conroe, Texas, United States
  • Spotted Indoors: Other
  • Found in web?: No
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Katiebarkerxo

Looks like a nursery web spider

Katiebarkerxo

Yeah I was debating weather it’s nursery web or wolf too but I thought it looked more like a nursery web spider

TangledWeb

Pretty sure it isn’t Pisaurina mira, they have bulbous hairy tips on the pedipalps and press their legs flatter against a surface. Their thick stripe runs down both the cephalothorax and abdomen. I had one living on my house, it helps to view a spider in person to learn it, in my experience. That said, I don’t know what it is.

ajohnson

Wolf. They eyes are the key!

CalumEwing

I agree with TangledWeb, it is not Pisaurina mira. The eye arrangement looks more like a Wolf Spider (family Lycosidae) and it might be Hogna antelucana, but I’m leaning more towards Tigrosa anexa.

ajohnson

BINGO!!

ajohnson

No, this is a wolf spider. The eyes give the wolf spider away. See the two very large forward looking eyes? If you ever see a spider with two eyes almost on top of the head (look closely! They’re there, two large forward facing median eyes, and 4 little ones underneath the two median, that is a dead giveaway that you are talking wolf spider. Also keep in mind that there is no violin shape on the carapace, and the abdomen does have striping, which the brown recluse does not have. This is not the nursery web because of the… Read more »