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dustbunny spider, grosse Winkelspinne

Tegenaria atrica

Description:

we found this horrible beauty under a boxwood shrub, she is huge, about 10 cm with feet, the body of the spider about 4 cm long, as you can see, there are brown patterns on the tail no idea about the species - the first one, of this kind I ever get to see I just found out, that are more active at night, and that they can be venonymous

Habitat:

under boxwoodshrub

Notes:

@ nana

1 Species ID Suggestions

C.Sydes
C.Sydes 11 years ago
funnel-web spider
family Agelenidae


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2 Comments

Thank you CSydes! you brought me on the right track!

C.Sydes
C.Sydes 11 years ago

I would guess at a type of funnel-web spider

Gemeinde Kottingbrunn, Niederösterreich, Austria

Spotted on May 1, 2012
Submitted on May 1, 2012

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