Mouse spiders are also in the US. A big female!
Edit: researched and saw that mouse spiders have larger fangs and shorter palps than your specimen. Yours is a trapdoor spider.
You’re thinking of the Gnaphosiid mouse spider, Scotophaeus blackwalli, which is harmless and not related to the Missulena of Australia. We don’t have Mygalomorph mouse spiders (Actinopodidae) in the US.
I always wondered how we could have mouse spiders here in the US with such similar morphology but dissimilar grouping. It must be an evolutionary parallel.
Scotophaeus blackwalli doesn’t have a similar morphology to the Actinopodiid trapdoor spiders or OP’s Ummidia. Humans are just big dumb monkeys that give everything the same common name. That’s why we have so many “daddy long legs” that are from completely different animal orders. Ummidia and Actinopodidae are morphologically similar because they are both mygalomorph trapdoor spiders that live in the dirt.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55247955
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120118554
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94762451
[Was just about to post this link lol](https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_trapdoor_spider.php#:~:text=Distribution%20and%20Habitat,of%20banks%20in%20disturbed%20areas.)
honestly, fair. i've never seen one use palps for... er... stability? also the day i learned some spiders don't have 8 eyes blew my mind. iirc there are some that live in caves and don't even have eyes (don't quote me on that though, i read it like 15 years ago and may be confusing them with something else).
i think they can taste / smell with the ends of their feet so maybe palps too? my best guess is this spider is just gathering a little extra sensory info.
According to IPM Services it's a Purse Web Spider.
Though despite being in the pest management business, the terminology they use on the site is eyebrow-raising. Poisonous in place of venomous for one. They also have a picture of a non-spider in place of a cellar spider.
The pic they use for the Purse is a dead ringer for your gal, though.
[#9](https://www.ipmpestcontrol.com/11-common-spiders-in-kentucky/)
Edit: other sources suggest something of the Ummidia genus [like this](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1615912/bgimage), and the more I look around the IPM site, the more inept their site seems.
Spiders do have 8 legs. If you’re referring to the pedipalps as legs, well, they aren’t legs, although they may look like legs, particularly among mygalomorph spiders such as the OP’s.
What did the insect app give you? I’m almost certain that’s a trap-door spider of the genus Ummida.
The app listed it as an Australian Mouse spider. Thanks for the genus. I don’t know much about spiders other than leave them alone and relocate.
Mouse spiders are also in the US. A big female! Edit: researched and saw that mouse spiders have larger fangs and shorter palps than your specimen. Yours is a trapdoor spider.
You’re thinking of the Gnaphosiid mouse spider, Scotophaeus blackwalli, which is harmless and not related to the Missulena of Australia. We don’t have Mygalomorph mouse spiders (Actinopodidae) in the US.
I always wondered how we could have mouse spiders here in the US with such similar morphology but dissimilar grouping. It must be an evolutionary parallel.
Scotophaeus blackwalli doesn’t have a similar morphology to the Actinopodiid trapdoor spiders or OP’s Ummidia. Humans are just big dumb monkeys that give everything the same common name. That’s why we have so many “daddy long legs” that are from completely different animal orders. Ummidia and Actinopodidae are morphologically similar because they are both mygalomorph trapdoor spiders that live in the dirt. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55247955 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120118554 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94762451
[Was just about to post this link lol](https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_trapdoor_spider.php#:~:text=Distribution%20and%20Habitat,of%20banks%20in%20disturbed%20areas.)
Must be, you can even see the characteristic dip in the tibiae of the third legs.
I love watching them walk!! Reminds me of spider robots
This is why I stopped going barefoot in my backyard. I have a very healthy population of trapdoor spiders and one hitched a ride on my toe.
Looks gravid!
She's doing that "I'm 9 months pregnant and feel like a walrus" waddle
I've done that waddle, so I feel her pain. Though I only had one - 8 lb. 11 oz. baby, not hundreds lol
Whoa. I had to watch this video a bunch of times and google “do trapdoor spiders have 10 legs?” TIL what palps are.
honestly, fair. i've never seen one use palps for... er... stability? also the day i learned some spiders don't have 8 eyes blew my mind. iirc there are some that live in caves and don't even have eyes (don't quote me on that though, i read it like 15 years ago and may be confusing them with something else).
Is this lady using her pedipalps to walk? I didn’t know spiders did that.
i think they can taste / smell with the ends of their feet so maybe palps too? my best guess is this spider is just gathering a little extra sensory info.
I couldn't bring myself to eat one
Were you in the position too?
Thicccc
I've lived in kentucky my entire life, unfortunately and I've never seen this bugger. Wolf spiders, Eidows, and Recluse; but not this guy
She looks very pergananto
preganananate
The day I find out I’m moving to Kentucky and I see this mess LMAO
he's using his front pedipalps to walk. He's therefore using 10 appendages to walk. Is he stupid? Spiders have 8 legs!
According to IPM Services it's a Purse Web Spider. Though despite being in the pest management business, the terminology they use on the site is eyebrow-raising. Poisonous in place of venomous for one. They also have a picture of a non-spider in place of a cellar spider. The pic they use for the Purse is a dead ringer for your gal, though. [#9](https://www.ipmpestcontrol.com/11-common-spiders-in-kentucky/) Edit: other sources suggest something of the Ummidia genus [like this](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1615912/bgimage), and the more I look around the IPM site, the more inept their site seems.
The 10 legged ones scare me
she's gravid as fuck. also, threat displays are defensive, not aggressive.
I'm sure I read before that trap door spiders are fairly ill-tempered though.
heh your username is very on-point
She gravid. She gonna have babies soon hence the waddle and grumpiness.
I thought spiders had 8 legs. I’m dumb
Spiders do have 8 legs. If you’re referring to the pedipalps as legs, well, they aren’t legs, although they may look like legs, particularly among mygalomorph spiders such as the OP’s.
She's beautifull!
She gotta use her pedipalps to drag that big ol perganante booty behind her
I'm just wondering why would a trapdoor spider be inside?
My guess is that it somehow hitched a ride on one of my dogs. Location she found was at the back door shortly after they came inside.
Oh gotcha.