Comments & ID Thoughts
Front legs were much longer than the others. It was brownish in color but seemed to have a red tint, and had some kind of spots/pattern/lines on its body
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- Submitted: Nov 5, 2019
- Photographed: Nov 5, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Yorktown, Virginia, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi there this could be a northern black widow :3
It might be Steatoda grossa, a False Black Widow. Steatoda species seem to have a more brown-red appearance when light shines through the legs than Latrodectus species. The white band across the top of the abdomen is more of a False Widow thing. Steatoda grossa has vague white markings, Latrodectus species are crisper in their markings colors. Anyone else?