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Can anyone identify this spider?

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  • 02-01-2013 9:31pm
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    CelticH
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi

    Would anyone be able to identify this spider that I found in he house today? Never seen one before. Looks like a widow without the markings?

    Thanks


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    Lon.C
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭Lon.C


    Its a false widow. I got a shock when I saw a couple in the shed last summer.


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    CelticH
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭CelticH


    Lon.C wrote: »
    Its a false widow. I got a shock when I saw a couple in the shed last summer.

    Wow no way. I did some googling and thought maybe that's what it was. Do they have a bite do you know?


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    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,160 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    CelticH wrote: »

    Wow no way. I did some googling and thought maybe that's what it was. Do they have a bite do you know?

    Some species of false widow(steatoda) do have a bite, but it's nowhere near as harmful as a real widow(latrodectus).

    The one in your pic looks like a female steatoda bipunctata: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_bipunctata

    Relatively harmless afaik.


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