I have found two spiders (for lack of a better name), in my house that have what appears to be 10 legs and a 4 fanged mouth. I've never seen anything like this before. The site is El Paso TX. There are no webs. The insect did not move fast, or present with any distinguishing abilities. Just the appearance is unique. I have plenty of pictures, and I'll be happy to send them to you, or if you can tell me how to post them on this forum, that would probably be best. Please tell me what you think, or what you know. Thank you.

Sounds like Solfugids, arachnids with 10 appendages.

Do any of the pics in these two links look like what you found?:

Spiders

Spiderzrule

If not, email me a couple of the best pics you have and I'll post them here... and look a bit further for what it might be.

You are precisely correct. Thank you for your expertise. Tell me, do you always shoot 3-pointers from half-court? : )

I'm lol :p

I'm no expert really. 10 legs and 4 fangs on a spider just intrigued me - so I did some googling... and enjoyed learning something while I did. http://www.jackson8.com/images/amhd/thumb.gif

Ewwwww that's gross!! What a horrid spider! Hope I never come across that beast! :eek:

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Originally Posted by Jack101

I have found two spiders (for lack of a better name), in my house that have what appears to be 10 legs and a 4 fanged mouth. I've never seen anything like this before. The site is El Paso TX. There are no webs. The insect did not move fast, or present with any distinguishing abilities. Just the appearance is unique. I have plenty of pictures, and I'll be happy to send them to you, or if you can tell me how to post them on this forum, that would probably be best. Please tell me what you think, or what you know. Thank you.

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I have found several light brown spiders with 10 legs and it appears to have a 4 fanged mouth. I put it in a jar and suctions seemed to come out of the front 2 legs. This one also does not produce a web. It looks awful weird. I will try and get a picture of it next time I catch one. I would love see the pictures you have.
Thank you.

I found the sun spider in my home and I looked it up and I injoyed learning something new.EEEK its kind of freaky

:eek: they lay there eggs in the hair!!

If it has ten legs then it is not a spider because they have only eight legs.

I'm thinking (but am not sure) it is something related to centipedes. You might check this site

Centipede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Out and, in particular check out the list of common centipedes, particularly the "house centipede" and see if anything looks similar. You will not necessarily see the same critter here.

Ahha you saw a Solifugae I'm not kidding look it up on wikipedia

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Originally Posted by jaytheray

ahha you saw a Solifugae im not kidding look it up on wikipedia

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Jay, this question was asked and answered last a year ago. Please pay attention to the date of posts. They stay up for people to get the information.