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This spider was found in our garage. He was about the size of a quarter. Black abdomen, red cephalothorax, black legs that go slightly grey, black mandibles and small grey line on abdomen. Possibly out of state carried in on produce? Thank you for any ideas, we cannot find anything similar to this on the web.
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- Submitted: Feb 25, 2019
- Photographed: Jul 17, 2018
- Spider: Titanoeca
- Location: Anoka, Minnesota, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
Help identify this spider
Apr 24, 2019
Apr 24, 2019
Norfolk, 
Hi, this looks like a Titanoeca. Nice find. I need to make a genus page to file it when I have more time.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/651228/bgimage
Wonderful!! Thank you so much for the quick answer. My 13 yr old Daughter has been trying to find information with no luck. She was very happy to get this info when she woke up this AM!
Titanoeca psammophila
Thank you so much! We could find nothing on Google that looked like this guy
That species is native to Sweden and Europe (known as Titanoeca spominima since 2015). This should be either T. americana, T. brunnea, or T. nigrella.
That makes this find even better for my Daughter, we are Swedish descent, so neat to know it originated from Sweden!
Cool! Maybe your ancestors brought them here when they immigrated to America. That’s how a lot of species came to America, such as dandelions.
No … what I am saying is that Etienne.noddy’s ID is very likely wrong, sorry. I don’t think it’s Swedish 🙁 . Yours would be one of the ones native to North America that I listed.
I am probably wrong. Taking guesses, I need to specify that I’m guessing, sorry
Sorry Itsy! I’ll be more careful to read the entire thread of conversation before commenting.
One more fun piece of information I found when making the page to file this. A common name for this family of spiders is “Rock Weavers”.