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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Oct 13, 2020

What spider is this?

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2QandLearn Menifee, CA(Zone 9a) Oct 13, 2020

One of the Cellar Spiders, I think.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 13, 2020

Definitely NOT a cellar spider. Still working on it.

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Oct 14, 2020

I think this is the same and it appears to be consuming a moth.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 14, 2020

I think that I've finally run it down - I believe that it is a very atypical (to me, anyway) huntsman spider (family Sparassidae) in the genus Anaptomecus. See https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/126428-Anaptomecus-longiventris for an example (not the same species as yours).

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Oct 15, 2020

Thank you Flap body layout certainly is the same.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 15, 2020

I initially had dismissed Sparassidae as a possibility because of its apparent eye pattern. It took me a while to realize that one pair of its eyes was nearly invisible because their color so closely matched that of their background.

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Oct 15, 2020

Thanks very much for the detailed examination.

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