Female Brown Recluse?

[Ungoliant]

The second, smaller spider is a male Parasteatoda tepidariorum, which are incredibly common (their nickname in North America is ironically the "Common House Spider").

How do you distinguish between a male Steatoda and a male Parasteatoda?

I attached a few of my photos of P. tepidariorum so you can see both genders (first 2 are males, middle image is both, last 2 are females):

Thanks, Mandy! Now I know that my common house spider is an immature female. (She has doubled in size since I got her.)

[Ange]

the spider skins I found on the door looked exactly like the 'brown recluse' from the pic. There were tons of them. However, I have only seen one live recluse and one dried body. None on my sticky traps. I wonder if I brought them here from my shed from the old house. That is were the door was stored. either way am not worried anymore. Lost my heebie jeebies for the most part. I do get a little more jumpy when I see a spider. Before, They didn't bother me unless they were actually on my body. Even then I didn't care too much. I hope I can get back to that point.