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What kind of spider might this be ?

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what kind of spider, MIGHT this be.....was in our office.?

we live in Illinois..... the front 2 legs were black as night, but the rest of the spider was brownish / orange, and i think the body may have had lines down the middle of it IT WAS PRETTY big..NOT LIKE TARANTULA big , but much thicker than normal office / home spiders. any ideas

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  1. sounds like either a wolf spider, or a hobo spider


  2. if it was a bright-yellowish color with black lines on the "back" it is possible it could have been a 'banana spider', but can't

    really say without a picture.

  3. Learn to ID it yourself with the help of these websites -

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/1954

    http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Pictures...

    http://www.spideridentification.org/

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