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Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Please ID this spider, 2 by Litheon

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Litheon wrote:
Hi,

My 10 month old daughter was bitten with this spider on the Sunday. I live in Western Australia, so any spider bite is a guaranteed trip to the hospital. We captured the spider and took it with us to the hospital. The spider is about the size of an adult's fingernail. You could see 2 little bloodmarks on her finger after the bite so it did puncture her skin, and her finger started swelling up. After about an hour it went down again. We were told by the nurse on duty that this spider was not dangerous at all, since it was not on her list of dangerous spiders. However, she could not identify it.

Can anyone help?

The first photo is the top view of the spider, and the second is of the bottom view of the spider.

This message was edited Aug 1, 2012 7:43 PM