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Selenops sp.
Found this spider in my bed sheets when I pulled back the covers last night. Close to 2", I'd say. I captured it in a cup & put it outdoors. Maybe a Wolf spider but it has an unstreaked abdomen. Any ideas...it must be easy for you spider people.
In my bedroom: Siesta Key, FL
According to bug guide, one of these 3 species: S. aissus, S. insularis, or S.maculosus.
Just checked bugguide again...still just narrowed to 3 species, so I updated and just put Selenops sp.
Any luck on the ID of this one? I'm still curious after all these months :)
Thanks Livan...I noticed that one of our members Eric Eaton had worked on one of the Flattie ID's.
I tried looking for species there, found this one and another photo from FL that look just like yours, unfortunately neither is IDed to species. In fact most are not. There are only 2 species pages in this group and neither looks like yours to my untrained eye. You can submitted and see if you can someone to work on yours and some of the others on there, or try to research and see if there is another source that has FL flatties species. Good luck. Oh also I noticed that the info page at the genus level on bugguide lists a number of species, it may help in the research.
That looks exactly like it Livan! Wonder if I can get the species name from Bug Guide?
It is one of the Flatties (Selenops sp.)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/63207
if it were an Australian spider I would suggest huntsman but dont know which genus
Spotted on Apr 28, 2013
Submitted on Apr 29, 2013
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