Pisaurina mira
(Nursery Web Spider)

Comments & ID Thoughts

This spider is larger than any brown recluse I’ve ever seen, so I’m not certain that it is one. It was so large that at first I thought it was some kind of fishing spider. Bigger than a half dollar, which I thought was too big for a recluse, and it has a white capital Y shape on its carapace. I thought the brown recluse would always have a black/dark violin shape. This spider was found outside right next to a campfire ring at Montauk State Park in the Missouri Ozarks.

Is this a Brown Recluse?
Could it be something in the Kukulcania genus? Possibly some kind of Crevice Weaver?

• Submitted by: 
  
  nrguthd
• Submitted: May 17, 2019
• Photographed: May 16, 2019
• Spider: Pisaurina mira (Nursery Web Spider)
• Location: Jadwin , Missouri, United States
• Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Forest
• Found in web?: No
• Attributes: Dorsal