Identifying a spider?

Question

I found a spider once in the bathtub and twice in the sink that I found in our upstate New York home that I thought was a brown recluse. I'm not so sure now, but I wonder what it is.

1. It was fairly big; about the size of a large outdoor wolf spider, leg spread a little bigger than a quarter.

2. It had pretty big and recognizable palps

3. It had a pattern on it; I don't remember very well, but it might have been some kind of a black zig-zag on a tan body

4. It moved fast.

5. It was shaped like a wolf spider as well, none of that big bulky abdomen that gets dragged behind awkwardly like a black widow.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This is a good site for the brown recluse spider. It shows many of the things that are misidentified as it:

http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2...

There are many different types of wolf spiders, so what you are seeing may actually be one. Without pictures, it is pretty hard to tell what it is.

Answer 2

Ya know, hon?   Unless you have a photo, no one can tell you what it is of.  sorry.