CLOSED: Large Dark Brown Spider

Houston, TX

To whom ever wants to help,

We just remodeled our house a few months back. We’ve found two large spiders in the past week, like the photos I’m uploading of the most recent.

My wife is terrified it is a brown recluse. I’m a novice spider identifier, so I can’t rule them out. Any thoughts?

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Minot, ND

Definitely not a brown recluse; most likely a nursery web spider in the genus Pisaurina, such as Pisaurina mira.
https://uwm.edu/field-station/nursery-web-spider/

Houston, TX

Thanks for the help, Flapdoodle!

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