Spider I caught in house, ID help please.

[Newports]

I live in Northern eastern part of NJ. I caught a decently sized spider in my basement, 1-1/2 inches long including leg length when standing, body is about 3/4 an inch. The weird thing is it has tiny little arms that come out from where the fangs are with i think hooks on them. Body is slender, and has two strpes down its back and then yello or brown speckles.

He didn't have one leg in the back though, only one.

Other then that its a very cool spider, works its webs well!

 

[cacoseraph]

look up Agelenopsis grass spiders

 

[Newports]

Wow amazing! You got it!!
Awesome dude. Hahaha. So what exactly are the two hook like things used for?

 

[mackids]

I can't answer the hook question but I also live in jersey- central more specifically. and I went out into the woods to look for spiders and snakes and the Agelenopsis in the woods made the ones you find around the home and in backyards look tiny! My niece and I were "tickling" their webs and throwing crickets in the web to lure um out. They are amazing to watch in action!

 

[cacoseraph]

Wow amazing! You got it!!
Awesome dude. Hahaha. So what exactly are the two hook like things used for?

i think you are talking about spiral emboli. those are the parts that the male sticks into the female when mating. he charges them with sperm that comes out of his genital opening

I can't answer the hook question but I also live in jersey- central more specifically. and I went out into the woods to look for spiders and snakes and the Agelenopsis in the woods made the ones you find around the home and in backyards look tiny! My niece and I were "tickling" their webs and throwing crickets in the web to lure um out. They are amazing to watch in action!

yeah, some Agelenopsis around me get to 3 almost 4" DLS. i normally just literally grab everything when i'm bug hunting but i'm a little leary about pulling one of those huge fems out of her five foot wide funnel web

 

[Goblin_King]

So what exactly are the two hook like things used for?

Sex, I presume.

 

[Newports]

I can't answer the hook question but I also live in jersey- central more specifically. and I went out into the woods to look for spiders and snakes and the Agelenopsis in the woods made the ones you find around the home and in backyards look tiny! My niece and I were "tickling" their webs and throwing crickets in the web to lure um out. They are amazing to watch in action!

They got some spunk all right! Haha

thanks cacoserph for helpin me out!