Badumna longinqua
(Grey House Spider)

Picture ID 11166

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Caught it next to my cats water bowl at night. Put some other spider that was in my house on night 3, they fought and this spider ate it up. I ended up naming it Harley... Yes, I still have it, alive. I will post the belly next.

Submitted by:
tracy1johnson
Submitted: Apr 30, 2018
Photographed: Apr 30, 2018
Spider: Badumna longinqua (Grey House Spider)
Sex:
Female,
Maturity:
Adult
Location: Bandon, Oregon, United States
Spotted Indoors: Other
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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ItsyBitsy

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April 30, 2018 11:10 pm

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Grey House Spider, Badumna longinqua.

BugmanDan

April 30, 2018 11:27 pm

Hi. Not much detail I can work with here and nothing for a size reference.What I can make of this, Harly looks to be a female barn funnel weaver, Tegenaria domestica. A lot of uncertainty though. Yes,once these make a web,they will eat just about any spider or bug they trap with their web. They don’t play well with other spiders at all, even males have to be careful approaching. I have kept a number of them, about the same as grass spiders with keeping guides online She looks awful big in the abdomen, so you might expect an egg… Read more »