Just a regular house spider?

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eternity Edinburgh, United Kingdom Jul 31, 2009

This just visited us in our living room and scared my boyfriend half to death. I came to the rescue and captured it under a glass dish. Can anyone identify it?

body length approx. 1,5 cm

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eternity Edinburgh, United Kingdom Jul 31, 2009

Here is another image, I can only count 6 legs which is kind of weired as spiders normally have 8 legs, don't they?

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jul 31, 2009

This is a male spider in the genus Tegenaria, which includes the common house spider, Tegenaria domestica - see http://tinyurl.com/c2jgc9 - it appears to have suffered the traumatic loss of two of its legs. Very young spiders can regenerate lost legs when they molt; adult spiders cannot do this.

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