Found this at work.... - Hogna carolinensis

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I can tell you with 100% certainty that it's not a Brazilian Wandering Spider - Phoneutria nigriventer. The Brazilian Wandering Spider is in the family Ctenidae and has an entirely different eye arrangement from the wolf spiders even though their general appearance may look similar.

… Lynette Elliott, 11 September, 2013 - 8:37am

Carolina Wolf Spider it is...

After doing more research with the help of your input I'm fairly comfortable in saying this is a Carolina Wolf Spider. It's creepy how similar they are in apperance, but this one seems too docile to be the brazilian and it's apparently HIGHLY unlikely that a brazilian would ever find itself in the U.S. even with the involvement of cargo transport.

Thanks for the help! I think we'll all feel a little better now.

… irishpoe, 10 September, 2013 - 11:36am

My first impression....

was Hogna carolinensis (Carolina Wolf Spider):

… Laura P., 10 September, 2013 - 11:08am

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Moved from ID Request. It looks like one of the Hogna species. Spiders measurement doesn't include the legs. The largest wolf spiders are a little over an inch in length. If you still have it a ventral image can help ID these to species.

Wolf spiders in the US are harmless.

Why do you think this spider might have come from Brazil?

… Lynette Elliott, 10 September, 2013 - 7:48am

Just guessing..

We've never seen anything like it around here. We have a lot of products that come in from out of the country with the biggest flow of one of our materials coming out of brazil. Someone I work with said they looked it up and thought it was a brazilian wandering spider...I just didn't find that to be very likely.

… irishpoe, 10 September, 2013 - 11:18am