I found this fellow in a roadside cabinet in Southern California. I thought it interesting due to its size ( bigger than a quarter) so a snapped some photos to use to identify it later. Looking through pictures online I saw something remarkably similar that was listed as a brown recluse. I know they are not common in California, and I'd been lead to believe "brown recluses" found in California were always a result of misidentification. So I'm sending these to the web.
P.S. Sorry the images aren't more clear I didn't take them expect to count the number of eyes.
Edit: I have also read now that reculse do not have spines or banding on the legs. So I'm sure that this is not a recluse.
This message was edited Nov 3, 2014 12:16 PM
