I found this spider in some bananas at morrisons where i work and need help identifying it.
Incase the pic isn't clear it's light brown with a blackish body with a lighter brown stripe down it.
About 1.5 centimeters long from tip of head to tip of abdomen.
Legs are a stripy brown/black and light brown.
Quite aggressive.
ID Spider from a pack of bananas at work
This spider does not appear to be anything that would be dangerous from a human health standpoint. It might even be a wolf spider, but I cannot see diagnostic features (such as eye pattern and spinnerets) necessary to be confident of at least family identification
Thanks, i'll take some more photo's to see if that helps. I was hoping it would be a member or the wandering spider family.
I still cannot see the eye pattern clearly - the principal difference between wolf spider (Lycosidae) eyes and wandering spider (Ctenidae) eyes is that wolf spiders have four small eyes in the lowest row - see http://tinyurl.com/ngpsmx and wandering spiders have but two - see http://tinyurl.com/nlxhky. Also, the anterior median eyes of wolf spiders are greatly enlarged relative to those in the lower row.
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