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AWagnon72 Antioch, CA Jul 23, 2013

Found crawling on wall of house. Located in Northern California, Contra Costa County.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 24, 2013

Could be one of the wall/disc spiders in the family Oecobiidae - see http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Oecobius.htm for examples.

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AWagnon72 Antioch, CA Jul 24, 2013

Don't think so... notice the black cap and FURRY white front legs. What kind of spider has furry white front legs?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 24, 2013

How small was this spider? If only a few mm, there's not much else it could be. The spider is a male; the fuzzy 'legs'' actually are its pedipalps. And some Oecobius sp. have the thoracic disc almost entirely dark - see http://www.eurospiders.com/oecobius_sp_6379.jpg (this is a female).

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AWagnon72 Antioch, CA Jul 24, 2013

I would say that this spider was about .5 inches. But my mother has stated that she has gotten a dead spider from her pool that looks like my picture but with a 1.5 - 2 inch body... and my nephew ran from two that size that were live. The large live ones were on my mother's deck in the backyard, and she lives around the corner from me. Does your guess grow that large and/or be located in California?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 25, 2013

Oecobiids indeed occur in California. but they seldom are more than a few mm in body length. A larger spider with a similar color pattern might be a wolf spider in the genus Pardosa - http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Lycosidae/Pardosa%20atromedia/IMG_4798b.jpg
Then just to add to the mix, some mesh web weavers (family Dictynidae) also can be superficially similar (see http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Dictynid1.htm for an example), but these spiders construct capture webs, and do not wander about on surfaces.

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