Steatoda grossa
(False Black Widow)

Comments & ID Thoughts

At first I thought this may have been a brown recluse, as I found it in a cardboard box (the box has been sitting there for about 2 months in living room) and its abdomen wasn’t round. I don’t believe brown recluses have patterned abdomens or are usually found in North Carolina, though. I also saw no violin marking on the thorax. Help me identify please! I’m hoping not to find a family of them...

• Submitted by: 
  
  ants1
• Submitted: Dec 14, 2018
• Photographed: Dec 14, 2018
• Spider: Steatoda grossa (False Black Widow)
• Sex: 
  
  Male,
• Maturity: 
  Adult
• Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Spotted Indoors: Other
• Found in web?: No
• Attributes: Dorsal