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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae)
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Arizona Recluse?
Copyright © 2019 Sherri Sprau

Arizona Recluse?
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
September 16, 2019
Size: 1.25” with legs
Arizona Recluse? I captured and released. He was in a bathroom at the place I work. We’ve had them before and it seems like they kill the cellar spiders and other insects :) as soon as I let him go he ran under some grass to hide. Maybe reclusive behavior? I found him on a web which I think was previously made by a cellar spider. In their web they hang upside down if that helps. It didn’t seem to have any leg spines or hair.
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Contributed by Sherri Sprau on 16 September, 2019 - 3:07pm
Last updated 25 October, 2019 - 12:24pm

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Moved from Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 25 October, 2019 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request.
… Chad Heins, 17 September, 2019 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

It
is in fact a cellar spider, one of the short-bodied cellar spiders, Pholcidae.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 16 September, 2019 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

 
He doesn’t have the behavio
He doesn’t have the behavior of a cellar spider. At least he didn’t shake when he was disturbed as the other short bodied cellar spiders we have here.
… Sherri Sprau, 16 September, 2019 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

 
He also didn’t have any ban
He also didn’t have any banding on his legs. :). Do you know which cellar spider you are thinking he is?
… Sherri Sprau, 16 September, 2019 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

 
I
would say Physocyclus or Psilochorus.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 16 September, 2019 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

 
After looking them up, I don
After looking them up, I don’t believe he is either one . :/
… Sherri Sprau, 16 September, 2019 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Try
Pholcophora. That might be it.
Either way, it is a cellar spider, and not a recluse.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 16 September, 2019 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Thank you!
… Sherri Sprau, 16 September, 2019 - 4:29pm login or register to post comments

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