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I was thinking possibly a wolf spider? It was definitely larger than a half dollar but smaller than the palm of my hand... not sure but too close to my pillows for comfort! Upstairs bedroom. I threw a shoe at him, missed, then lost him.
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- Submitted: Mar 27, 2018
- Photographed: Mar 26, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Dunmore, Pennsylvania, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Attic
- Found in web?: No
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Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 I don’t think I can see this well enough. Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) are not very good climbers, it’s an unlikely thing to see on a wall unless the surface is rough enough for one to hold on to. Just guessing, did it look like this?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/789829/bgimage
Hmm… the shape of the body seems to match. The spider I saw was very black though, it didn’t even seem to have any markings, just a very dark black color. Hopefully that helps.
Yeah, I’ve had the species I linked to above turn up in my home a few times and they look black indoors in person, it isn’t until you see them magnified that all the brown stripes are easy to see. Here is a another common one that might appear similar:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1056594/bgimage
That does look very similar, thank you!