False Widow?

iwillhtfu

Just curious and ye might know.

Is this a false widow spider?

endacl

House spider.

Keane2baMused

I had a false widow in my kitchen last year.

It had 'skull' markings on its back.

Maybe it's a variation of a falsie but my understanding is they generally have white skull markings.

iwillhtfu

endacl wrote: »

House spider.

I don't think so.

endacl

Keane2baMused wrote: »

I had a false widow in my kitchen last year.

It had 'skull' markings on its back.

Maybe it's a variation of a falsie but my understanding is they generally have white skull markings.

Plus a Facebook panic. No Facebook panic = no false widow.

iwillhtfu

Keane2baMused wrote: »

I had a false widow in my kitchen last year.

It had 'skull' markings on its back.

Maybe it's a variation of a falsie but my understanding is they generally have white skull markings.

It did have markings on its back but they weren't white kind of a light brown. I can't say it looked like a skull but definitely a pattern of some description.

It was about the size of a 50c coin possibly a little bigger and it's body was hard like a shell

Keane2baMused

endacl wrote: »

Plus a Facebook panic. No Facebook panic = no false widow.

Exactly.

Mine came down from underneath the extractor fan as I was cooking dinner.

Invoked some serious facebook panic.

#omg #hatespiders #fml

iwillhtfu

endacl wrote: »

Plus a Facebook panic. No Facebook panic = no false widow.

No need for panic I've showered with red back spiders over my head. Not a fan of spiders but know enough they're not out to attack random odd balls

endacl

iwillhtfu wrote: »

It did have markings on its back but they weren't white kind of a light brown. I can't say it looked like a skull but definitely a pattern of some description.

It was about the size of a 50c coin possibly a little bigger and it's body was hard like a shell

Zygiella x-notata

iwillhtfu

Google. Seems to be a few different looking versions.

Not to worry just curious.

iwillhtfu

endacl wrote: »

Zygiella x-notata

Possibly.

No Web of sorts though just a thin wispy layer between 2 tiles. Seemed odd.

glued

Without seeing the abdomen fully it's nearly impossible to describe the above as a false widow but it looks like one. The size, colour of legs and thorax and the body all would point to a false widow.

iwillhtfu

glued wrote: »

Without seeing the abdomen fully it's nearly impossible to describe the above as a false widow but it looks like one. The size, colour of legs and thorax and the body all would point to a false widow.

This is the best I could do.