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shellfinn Dublin, Ireland Mar 31, 2011

someone said it looked like the arizona brown spider?
http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/04/30/arizona-brown-spider/
but I had a nest in my house - I was killing 3 of these a night for about a month!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Mar 31, 2011

This male spider (note the swollen pedipalps) is in the family Agelenidae (funnel web/grass spiders) and the genus Tegenaria - see http://tinyurl.com/4ec63e7 for an example. Some of these can be quite large, with a leg span exceeding 75 mm. Although large specimens can deliver a painful bite if mishandled, they are not dangerous to humans.

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