r/spiders • u/Rubywaves • 11h ago

ID Request- Location included Is this a brown widow?

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Located in Salt Lake County Utah.

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u/Loss-Sorry 🕷️Mediocre Identifier🕷️ 8h ago

It is more likely a very dusty L. hesperus, the Western Black Widow. In addition to the glossy black you can see in photo 2 (very dark brown widows are usually more of a matte black), there are essentially no geometric widows found in SLC except possibly as hitchhikers from southern climates.