CLOSED: Spider...possible brown recluse?

Gloucester City, NJ

There's a debate on whether or not these spiders living in the window at my office are young brown recluse or not. Some are certain they are, other are certain they aren't. I'd like to know for sure so I can exercise proper caution. I know Brown Recluse' don't usually live in my area (New Jersey) however, about 5 years ago, my mother went to the hospital from a bug bite that started to eat away at her flesh, and the test came back that it was a brown recluse bite. I've never seen one though, and i can't completly tell from different pictures online.

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Minot, ND

This is a harmless running crab spider in the family Philodromidae.
1. Recluse spiders are concolorous; other than the 'violin' marking on the cephalothorax, they bear no distinct markings and their legs are not banded.
2. Recluse spiders almost never are found out in the open. There's a good reason for the term 'recluse'...
3. You are hundreds of miles outside the endemic range for brown recluse spiders - http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif

Gloucester City, NJ

Thank you

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