Comments & ID Thoughts
I get a lot of these spiders in my basement and am concerned they could be dangerous.
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- Submitted: Mar 25, 2018
- Photographed: Mar 25, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Forest Park, IL 60130, Illinois, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Basement or Cellar
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 I can’t make out many details here. Best guess would be some kind of Thin-legged Wolf Spider (Pardosa). They’re nothing to worry about.
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Thank you. I was concerned that it could be a type of recluse spider which are common to Illinois, and venomous. If it is helps dial in the identification I typically see them crawling across the floor (like this one) in the basement only or waiting with a few others (like at the underside of the laundry machines with the front of their legs sticking out). The ones crawling I see at all times of day.