Spider ID Please

[peterjohnson64]

Crappy photos I know. I am in Melbourne and some friends asked me what this is. It is a big spider (check it against the brick). Velvety back. Was in a shed in a simlar environment to a red back. It wasn't carrying babies.

If you have quals in entomology please let me know in your reply (hey Hazz )

 

[craig.a.c]

Mouse spider maybe.

Not sure.

 

[Brettix]

black house spider,Badumna insignis

 

[Brettix]

Mouse spider maybe.

Not sure.

mouse spider lol.:lol:
This is a mouse spider

 

[scam7278]

black house spider

 

[Joshua VW]

Black Window Spider alright.
Get lots of those around here, they are poisonous.

 

[peterjohnson64]

what, a black house that is half the width of a brick (i.e. 5cm) in width??? I also said that but I have never seen one that big.

Oh, and after seeing that link it is nohting like that either

 

[peterjohnson64]

Oh, and it says body length - 17mm - so it clearly isnt a black house spider

 

[Brettix]

Mate, theres a first time for everything.
Its defintley a black house just a big one,i have noticed that site
is not that correct with its measurement of size.
A house brick width is 7cm that spider looks no mor than 4cm wich is not uncommon.

 

[scam7278]

pete my dad used to get heaps of those in his office and i was always told that they are called black house spiders.but i have never seen them that size so maybe i am wrong ?? but i AM always right lol

 

[abbott75]

I'm saying Black House Spider too.

 

[exoticcorpse]

My grandfather got bitten in the eye in his chicken shed by one of these. Not a pretty sight at all!

He also made the front page of the local paper for wrestling a scrub python that tried to take his border collie!

 

[abbott75]

My grandfather got bitten in the eye in his chicken shed by one of these. Not a pretty sight at all!

He also made the front page of the local paper for wrestling a scrub python that tried to take his border collie!

I was bitten on the hand by one once. Nothing serious, just hurt a little. Oh well, I don't tease them anymore

 

[jordo]

I'm gonna back the others on this one, I've seen them larger than 1.7cm

 

[peterjohnson64]

Hazz?

 

[salebrosus]

piss off with the mouse spider pics, i want to sleep tonight!

Simone.

 

[urodacus_au]

Id stick with Badumna insignis. Ive seen some big females up in the shed roof during summer, the heat drives them out of their hides.

Jordan