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[Solved] What kind of spider is this? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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About 1.5 to 2 inches across. Found in Santa Cruz, CA

Edit: Thanks all for your responses!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Some species of American false wolf spider

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, thought this too. Identified a similair looking spider with an app once.

Big nope vibes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A harmless bro.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bite like wolfies? Because I had one hit me like when bee sting when I scared her up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, probably. A bee sting is a pretty good comparison for spider bites in general, though with a very low chance of alergic reaction compared to bees or wasps. And that's really where the danger is.

Otherwise it will just hurt for a bit and then go away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Bees hurt way worse than these IMO. But I'm possibly mildly allergic to bees.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Thanks, that was my assumption as well from some minor googling but wanted to get another pair (or 3) of eyes on it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I just got a reply back from a buddy that is an actual publish arachnologist and he confirms it's Zoropsidae (the false wolf spiders, and the family including the widley suggested Titiotus).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I also thought it was a wolf or false wolf as well from some minor googling. I appreciate you reaching out to your friend for the expert opinion!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A spider that's terrible at hiding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing this! I quite enjoyed it.

The choice to

show spoiler

muffle the microphone when the spider covered its head with sand

was a brilliant touch.

P.S. I wish Lemmy supported >!inline spoilers!<. The current spoiler markdown is pretty clunky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ha! I thought it was on a paper towel or something until it actually moved the sand at the end.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Looks like a wolf or false wolf spider. Good spiderbro.

[+] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I didn't realize how varied eye layouts were in spiders otherwise I would have tried for a better pic from another angle. Hoped the rough size estimate would be sufficent but I understand how a picture with a banana (or similar) for scale would be more helpful. Appreciate the response and it seems the crowd has spoken -- false wolf spider! (or perhaps regular wolf spider but either way is good enough for me)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

or perhaps regular wolf spider

Nope, easily exluded by what you can see in the pictures, by the eyes. The entire cephalothorax region is wrong for a wolf spider. I was first stuck on Gnaphosidae.

And your picture was brilliant. You won't believe the shitty pictures some people expect you to give an ID from. And you gave a proper size (though we prefere body lenght over leg span and centimetres) and a location.

This post was perfect. Even got the "oh a brown spider, must be a brown recluse" comment ...

Join [email protected] maybe?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My best guess so far would be Titiotus sp., one of the false wolf spiders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you! I thought probably wolf at first and only learned about the existence of false-wolf when googling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Brown recluse

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Definitely not.

Don't ID medical significant spiders if you don't know what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they don't appreciate Entomemeology jokes here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I understand it's very much a meme. But a bad one. And without any indicators that it's not a serious answer it should just be treated as a wrong answer.

When someone honestly requests and ID these kinds of jokes are also just not appropriate in general. Most people that find spiders aren't in on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why on earth are you so pissy at me for? I didn't make the joke, I literally told them this probably isn't a place where it'd be appreciated

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wasn't trying to come across as "pissy". But trying to explain the "joke" you referenced. And yes, I guess explaining a joke always kind of makes you sound like a dick.

Nothing personal. But spider IDs are serious business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Don't have an answer, but hope things are going well. I miss living there.