Spider identification (sorry if this is in the wrong place)

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I'm sorry if this in the wrong place I'm new and can't seem to figure out where this would go. I wanted to see if someone here could help me with what kind of spider this is. I live about 50 miles northwest of Houston in a wooded area in Texas. Thanks in advance.
 

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I'm sorry if this in the wrong place I'm new and can't seem to figure out where this would go. I wanted to see if someone here could help me with what kind of spider this is.
This is the right board for ID requests for spiders that aren't tarantulas.

Your spider belongs to one of these three families:

While I can't be 100% sure which one it is from this image, if I were a betting woman, I would say Anyphaenidae.

Instead of building a web to catch prey, these spiders hunt on foot at night. (During they day, they rest in silken sacs.) Sometimes ghost spiders wander inside my home. I just catch them and release them outside, where they return the favor by eating bugs.

It's definitely not a medically significant species, in case that was an unspoken concern. (The only medically significant spiders in Texas are widows and recluses.)
 

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This is the right board for ID requests for spiders that aren't tarantulas.

Your spider belongs to one of these three families:

While I can't be 100% sure which one it is from this image, if I were a betting woman, I would say Anyphaenidae.

Instead of building a web to catch prey, these spiders hunt on foot at night. (During they day, they rest in silken sacs.) Sometimes ghost spiders wander inside my home. I just catch them and release them outside, where they return the favor by eating bugs.

It's definitely not a medically significant species, in case that was an unspoken concern. (The only medically significant spiders in Texas are widows and recluses.)
Thank you, I was concerned it was a brown recluse. I've lost 4 cats over the years out here 3 from copper heads and one from a brown recluse. I keep track of most the snakes and insects out here but I couldn't pin that one. I was sure it was a wolf spider until it got closer. Just outside the picture there was a stick bug it was having a standoff with.
 

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Thank you, I was concerned it was a brown recluse. I've lost 4 cats over the years out here 3 from copper heads and one from a brown recluse. I keep track of most the snakes and insects out here but I couldn't pin that one. I was sure it was a wolf spider until it got closer. Just outside the picture there was a stick bug it was having a standoff with.
It might also be something from drassodes genus too.
 
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