Big spider in north phoenix/carefree area

Phoenix, AZ

I tried to ID this big fella I found tonight running around the house but I couldn't find anything that quite fit the description. It looks like it has 8 legs but then again the two in front might be antennae or jaws/claws/hands of some sort, which disqualifies it from the arachnids. It has large mandibles like a tarantula does, which leads me to believe it is not a brown recluse. Please help!

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Minot, ND

It's a solfugid (sun spider, wind scorpion), a non-venomous arachnid related to spiders and scorpions - http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/solpugid.html

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