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

Edit: Thanks all for your responses!

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    6 months ago

    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)

    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org
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      6 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 !spiders@lemmy.world maybe?

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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      6 months ago

      Your size description was good, I’m just terrible at imagining sizes well. But I get why getting it to stand next to a coin or something for scale was not an option. I love spiders, but they don’t take direction.