I have a question for you, since you are the spider identifier and google-fu has not worked. I occasionally get these little whitish spiders in my house. Not really white, though, they're more like the color of that one's abdomen taken up say three shades or so. It's a very mat color, almost velvety, not shiny. They are around the same shape as that one as well, minus huge fangs, but the color is the same all over, off white, no markings at all. They are between dime and nickel sized legspan, pretty small. They seem to lurk most in my bathroom, so maybe they like more humidity than typical here (since I keep the bathroom shut, it holds humidity from my showers more than the rest of the house)?
I'd take a picture if I had seen one in awhile, but it's been an mostly spiderless winter. I haven't found anything like it in any book or spider id website or anything, so I wonder if maybe it's just an adolescent stage of something else and the color will come with molting? Seems odd though, they appear full grown size for this area.
Yellow sac spider?kynekh_amagireApril 5 2011, 03:11:32 UTC
Cheiracanthium? They're widespread house spiders. Here's one I caught in my house last year:
There are a few species in the U.S., C. mildei and C. inclusum being the most common IIRC. There's a bit of color variation: some are very yellow, some are very pale, but they're very striking once you start noticing them.
I have a question for you, since you are the spider identifier and google-fu has not worked. I occasionally get these little whitish spiders in my house. Not really white, though, they're more like the color of that one's abdomen taken up say three shades or so. It's a very mat color, almost velvety, not shiny. They are around the same shape as that one as well, minus huge fangs, but the color is the same all over, off white, no markings at all. They are between dime and nickel sized legspan, pretty small. They seem to lurk most in my bathroom, so maybe they like more humidity than typical here (since I keep the bathroom shut, it holds humidity from my showers more than the rest of the house)?
I'd take a picture if I had seen one in awhile, but it's been an mostly spiderless winter. I haven't found anything like it in any book or spider id website or anything, so I wonder if maybe it's just an adolescent stage of something else and the color will come with molting? Seems odd though, they appear full grown size for this area.
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There are a few species in the U.S., C. mildei and C. inclusum being the most common IIRC. There's a bit of color variation: some are very yellow, some are very pale, but they're very striking once you start noticing them.
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