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I thought it was a brown recluse, but it is not.
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- Submitted: Feb 26, 2020
- Photographed: Feb 27, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Gunsan, Korea, South
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.),Under rock, log, or debris
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
So this thing looks a lot like a hobo spider, but it’s on the other side of the planet from previous reported sightings. There were a whole bunch of them, many different sizes too, from quarter size to dime size. This one stopped so I could photograph him.
It looks like a Wolf Spider, family Lycosidae. They are not dangerous to people. The next step is to find out which Wolf Spider species are in South Korea. The online World Spider Catalog documents all known spider species. I’ll try to search by family level of taxonomy + South Korea.
This is a list of all spiders of Korea (2002) in the World Spider Catalog. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/refincluded/9362 It has a column for family level. Finding photos of each is more difficult.