Southern California. It jumps. Lost legs unfortunately trying to catch it. Released outside.

  • raunz@mander.xyz
    3·
    4 months ago

    Cheiracanthium mildei would be my guess. But those usually don’t jump. (Hard to tell/ not an expert)

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      That’s looks a lot like it, but a smaller one than pictures. The abdomen was pretty small, but those long fat ended pedipalps look similar. Sounds like they’re not deadly but painful bite and they do bite when handled so glad I didn’t take a chance. Thanks for the help!

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      Thanks! I’ll take a look again. The wolf spider pics I saw looked like tarantulas.

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I got bitten by a couple of these in San Clemente, caught one and brought it to someone at UC Irvine, back when there was a Bike Religion store on campus and I was they Buyer for the chain. They said it was a wolf spider. I was told there is a good bit of variance in the species that can make them difficult to identify further, but they are common to SoCal.

          • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Just painful, but deeply so. It looked about like a mosquito bite, but under the surface it went deeper and impacted muscles to a minor extent for around a month. I was commuting full time by bicycle and it had noticeable effects.

  • Zectivi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    The size and color make me think “black footed yellow sac spider”, a.k.a. Cheiracanthium Inclusum, but those aren’t known to jump. They can be quick runners though.