ID if possible please

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Posted by David Taylor on August 31, 2006 at 2:04 PM

I rescued this spider from the cleaner's brush at work. I brought it home and took a quick photo before release in my greenhouse.
Any ideas?

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Posted by Elliott Neep on August 31, 2006 at 2:18 PM

Some kind of wolf spider / house spider. Have a look at the link below to see whether you can find a match:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/thumbnails/spidhome_thumbnails.htm

Posted by Nick on August 31, 2006 at 2:29 PM

Most likely to be one of the House Spiders...Tegenaria gigantea/domestica.

Totally harmless (unless you're a fly or an arachnophobe), and prone to startle people by scuttling over the carpet when they're watching TV at night

. Other normal habitats include lurking in shed corners and "malingering with intent" in your bath

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Posted by Tim Munsey on August 31, 2006 at 4:47 PM

We've had a couple of huge ones like this, perhaps its a very good year if you're a spider and therefore I guess a bad one if you're a fly.

Posted by David Taylor on August 31, 2006 at 6:01 PM

Thanks lads for your answers. According to the British Arachnological Society website
http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/bas.php?page-faq&faq=47 it could be a male
Tegenaria saeva the northern and western British equivalent of T.gigantea.
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