Comments & ID Thoughts
Is this a brown recluse?
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- Submitted: Jun 16, 2019
- Photographed: Jun 16, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Winterset, Iowa, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Is this a brown recluse?
Definitely not a brown recluse. Looks like either a sowbug hunter, Dysdera crotata, or one of the ground spiders in the family Gnaphosidae. Not dangerous in either case.
I agree, it looks like Dysdera crocata.