The "'black house spider "'( " Badumna insignis " ) is a common species of cribellate Australian spider, found throughout much of Australia and New Zealand.
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The Amazonian spider mates with a female domestic house spider and makes a nest in Jennings'barn, producing hundreds of infertile drone offspring, all of which have their father's lethal bite.
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The BAS is a registered charity in England and Wales ( Charity No . 260346 ) and in Scotland ( Charity No . SC044090 ) Large house spider ( " Tegenaria saeva " ) on a kitchen floor
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:: Given the estimated size by OP and the location, it's likelier to be the common ( in Europe ) house spiders of the genera " Tegenaria " or " Malthonica ".
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"' House spiders "'of the genus " "'Tegenaria " "'are fast-running brownish funnel-web weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan and Indonesia.
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Of all " common house spiders ", they are the only species whose tarsi do not point either outward ( like " Tegenaria " ) or inward ( like " Araneus " ), and are therefore easy to identify.
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It is a resident of fields, rarely entering human habitations due to the presence of major competitors, particularly the giant house spider ( " Eratigena atrica " ), which is a common resident of houses and other man-made structures in Europe.
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Feeding Bessie could have been my full-time job since I was the only grandchild until I was seven and my cousin Malcolm was born, but I was afraid of the pantry because a house spider the size of a salad plate lived in there _ unmolested.
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Its common names include the " black cobweb spider ", " brown house spider ", " cupboard spider " and due to its similarities to the katipo spider it is commonly known as the " false katipo " in New Zealand.
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However, in Europe, where the spider originates, the species is considered a harmless outdoor relative of the common house spider ( " Tegenaria domestica " ), and no other spider in the genus " Tegenaria " is considered to be harmful to people.
