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Insect and Spider Identification: Brown / chilean recluse spider?, 3 by Rorschach83

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Rorschach83 wrote:
Yesterday night I found this spider in my appartment in Mexico City. It was walking on the floor when I saw it. I immediately sprayed some pesticide -Raid-, which made it run away pretty fast. Then I smashed it, so I was not able to take any pictures of the living creature.
I was wondering if it could be a member of the loxosceles genus, may be a laeta or a brown recluse. It has the shape, the legs and the size -its body about half an inch and a little more than an inch lenght with spread legs. Unfortunately, I do not have any instrument to examine if it has 6 or 8 eyes.
What do you think?