Delete if it's not the right place but does anyone know what this spider is? I opened my garage door and it scared me wife. Sorry about the quality, i had to run out of the garage and take the photo zoomed in (it looked around the same size as a huntsman and looked bigger than the normal spiders we get around here)
Does Anyone Know What This Spider Is?
17 Comments
kaidenshi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
It would help to know where you live. Since you mentioned a Huntsman I’m assuming Australia?
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 79d
Yeah Victoria, Australia
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 7 pts · 79d
as mentioned above I would guess a Badumna spp by the looks, and being is Aus it would fit.
PS we 'keep' a few of these in our lounge in NZ to keep the fly population down over summer
remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 79d
I second Badumna insignis, or "black house spider".
remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 78d
This is simultaneously a very good and bad assumption. Let me explain!
You can find huntsmen spiders in most parts of the world, but they are very unevenly distributed. I know we only have a single species in Western Europe, Micrommata virescens and it's not a very common or noticeable one. Also rare in North America. But the rest of the Americas, SEA and Southern Africa (Madagascar for some reason specifically) has a lot of them.
But when you also factor in the location where lemmy users are probably from, Australia is probably a very likely place to associate with huntsmen. They have all the big ones and they're common there. I wish we had more!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 79d
According to Google it may be a black house spider?
Janx@piefed.social · 15 pts · 79d
Wow, just because it's black and was found in a house... Prejudiced much?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 78d
Also, op never mentioned the color of the house!
remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 78d
You'd be surprised by how often that works ...
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 79d
Yeah that does really look like it, cheers!
abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 79d
Whatever it is it dumps like a truck
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 79d
🤣
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Cool as fuck, that's what it is.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 78d
Just go to https://www.inaturalist.org/ or install the inaturalist app and you'll have a pretty good guess of what this is.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 79d
Wet.
Jam_Toast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 79d
Could be a funnel-web, hard to tell from the photo.
remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 78d
The photo is indeed not great, but there is enough here to exclude Atrax spp.
First, OP said he is in Victoria, Australia, that excludes all but one species. And the one remaining is quite rare and hardly found near humans. Asking for location is always a good idea, especially when you suggest spiders that have a relatively small or specific range.
The major visual clue would be the eye sections. Atrax, like most mygalomorphs, has a dome-shaped eye section with most of the eyes concentrated on top. But here we see a much more rectangular, bulky section.
A second visual clue would be the spinnerets, which look too short for Atrax.