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Found in my house - Coras - male
Copyright © 2005 Sue House-Hepburn

Found in my house - Coras - Male
St. Catharines, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
December 20, 2005
found this little guy in my basement bathroom sink -- can anyone identify it? Is is harmful?
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Contributed by Sue House-Hepburn on 21 December, 2005 - 11:16pm
Last updated 13 January, 2006 - 12:32pm

Male
I do not know, but I can say it is a male. The "clubbed" pedipalps are how one can tell.
… Sean McCann, 22 December, 2005 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

 
Not harmful.
Whatever this is, it is not dangerous to humans. Spiders that ARE dangerous, in North America, include only the widows (Latrodectus spp.), the brown spiders (Loxosceles spp.), and maybe the "hobo spider" (Tegeneria agrestis). Naturally, anyone with sensitivity to insect stings and other arthropod venoms should probably avoid close contact with any spider. This specimen might be a male hackled-mesh weaver, family Amaurobiidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 December, 2005 - 10:32am login or register to post comments

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