>>2037092
>I know it can't be one of those because I got bit five times down my leg from sleeping with one just like it, and there was only minor swelling and pain.
thanks, that made my night.
funny shit.

>the front looked like a hobo spider
>the back looked like a hobo spider too
>but it can't be a hobo spider because I found a spider that looked like it in my bed once and my leg didn't fall off or anything.
brilliant deduction, Sherlock.

>>2037098
Yeh, har har. I forgot to mention that the abdomen wasn't as thick as a hobo spider's, just that the markings were similar but simplified.

The two I found were the same kind, I can confirm. I also kept a female of the same type for a while and the egg sac was not like a hobo spider's.

>>2037103
none of those things is diagnostic though.
You can't ID a spider by markings or abdomen thickness, and you sure as hell can't ID it based on your reaction to bites that may or may not even be bites caused by a spider that looked similar to your completely uneducated eye.

that said, google wolf spiders and grass spiders and see if any look like your mystery insect.

>>2037116
Looks like it may be a grass spider after all. (But I'll still say I'm sure that that spider did bite me, considering I found him under my leg which had a bunch of red welts that weren't there the night before.)

But now that I know I am a dumbass (no sarcasm) how is a spider identified if not by markings/abdomen/etc? Eye pattern?

>>2037122
usually by microscopic bits.

the best you and I are going to do without a microscope and a lot of information is going to be a combination of things like markings, eye pattern, shape of the pedipalps, coloration of the legs, type of fur, web type, etc.

>>2037129
Huh. Ok, thanks.
I learned something today.