Comments & ID Thoughts
Trying to identify this spider . The top of it's head was shiny and dark brown/black it was slow moving and not aggressive it had 8 legs and nice size fangs overall size about that if a half dollar.
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- Submitted: Sep 9, 2019
- Photographed: Sep 9, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Bethany, Oklahoma, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This is a Cork-lid trapdoor spider of the genus Ummidia.
Thank you, never seen anything like it in Oklahoma.
I just posted (9th sep 2019) a very similar spider, but much lighter color brown, and about the same size. Mine was found at an elevation of 6,300 ft in Lassen county, California.
Ummidia sp