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Shed skin - Heteropoda venatoria

Shed skin - Heteropoda venatoria
Winter Garden, Orange County, Florida, USA
Size: about a fourth of an inch
These pics were taken with my phone, I did my best to clean them up, but they are a bit fuzzy. We found this poor little guys remains on the bottom of my sister's desk. We didn't kill him, he was already dead. We thought it would a good idea to find out what kind of spiders are living in our house. We have two cats and a dog and just in case one of them finds a friend of this spider, we'd like to know what kind it might have been. Little guy has a set of WICKED sharp looking fangs. The first pic is a top down view. It's actually a little bit more of a greyish brown than it looks in that photo. You can see there are the standard 8 legs and then two more much smaller legs(?) sticking out by the face. The body is round, and looks to be about a 1/4 of an inch in diameter (not including the legs of course.) with some little hairs on both the back and the legs. The second pic is of the face. The fangs are in the style of true spider fangs, going downward and then curving towards each other at the tips. There are eight eyes in two rows with a pattern of the top row having one eye on both the right and left and then two eyes in the middle. The bottom row is a row of four eyes, centered with the middle two on the top row. The last picture is of the bottom of the spider. I don't know what it is that is protruding from it, but that was what was stuck to the desk where we found it. There are 8 segments surrounding the torso, one for each leg. There is a round area in the middle but I dont really see anything like spinnerets or genitalia there or anywhere. Other than that, you can see the mouth. This spider does not seem to have the standard two part body that most spiders have. If you have any further questions, please ask. I'll be keeping him in a safe place until he is either identified or I can get some pictures that are more clear. Thank you for your time.

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Shed skin - Heteropoda venatoria Shed skin - Heteropoda venatoria

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Frassed
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Sorry..have to frass these as there are many other better images of this species in the guide already, mostly from Florida. Don't be discouraged to post more in the future though...

 
These
are not images of a spider, but rather a cast skin.

As these spiders are often found in southern homes, these images may be helpful until something better comes along.

Not a threat...
Since you seemed slightly concerned about the interaction between this spider and your pets, I just thought I would mention that these spiders are not considered dangerous and may be beneficial in reducing the number of other household pests. As you noticed, they do posses very large fangs and if roughly handled, could deliver a somewhat painful bite. But, this is unlikely to occur and (as stated before) would not cause serious or lasting injury.

It
is a shed skin of huntsman spider, not remains. Not sure how long its been there, but the spider could still be alive and well, only larger.

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