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Large brown spider, Giant House Spider I think. - Eratigena atrica

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
November 9, 2011
Size: about 5cm tip to tip

I was thinking its a Giant House Spider (Tegenaria duellica). Spotted outside underneath my porch

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Contributed by Wildlife Sightings on 29 November, 2011 - 5:18pm
Last updated 19 April, 2018 - 1:48pm

Moved

Moved from Giant House Spider.
The taxonomic changes were reversed.

… Laura P., 19 April, 2018 - 1:48pm

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Moved

Moved from Eratigena atrica. Some taxonomic changes effected this species - http://bugguide.net/node/view/832892.

… Mandy Howe, 1 October, 2013 - 8:36am

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Moved

Moved from Tegenaria. Based on size and location I went ahead and moved to species page.

… Lynette Elliott, 1 December, 2011 - 9:44am

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Do you remember ...

what the source was for the North American range of E. atrica? I had difficulty tracking it down a while back when I edited the genus info. page and someone just asked me about it.

… Laura P., 2 August, 2018 - 9:03pm

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I don’t remember. :(

I’ll look through my books tonight. It might have been info I got from Rod Crawford.

… Lynette Elliott, 3 August, 2018 - 7:02pm

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Thanks.

I don't remember seeing them last night but Jeff added some provinces to his post so no need to go crazy looking for it. Rod Crawford was my suspicion.

… Laura P., 3 August, 2018 - 7:46pm

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Jeff Hollenbeck ...

sort of answered my question but it seems to be in a paper I don't have access to so I still don't know which provinces it's known from if you happen to recall.

… Laura P., 2 August, 2018 - 10:38pm

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Moved

Moved from ID Request. It certainly does look like Tegenaria. We call the Giant House Spider - Tegenaria gigantea. You can see the info page for an explanation. Because of range I don't think that species is possible here. I think this one could actually be T. atrica.

… Lynette Elliott, 1 December, 2011 - 9:40am

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