Comments & ID Thoughts
Red-ish torso with a black-ish lower half of the body. The web not intricate and symetrical, but rather haphazard. I've found two in corners or below cabinets. Both times they had just caught a small bettle and were feeding or wrapping it with webbing.
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- Submitted: Jan 17, 2018
- Photographed: Jan 16, 2018
- Spider: Theridiidae (Cobweb Weavers)
- Location: Kapaa, Hawaii, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Garage or shed
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Ventral
One of the Cobweb spiders, I am not sure which one. They are known for their messy webs. They are usually found in homes or out buildings.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 Can you get a dorsal shot of this spider? As mentioned above this is a Cobweb Spider of some-sort, I suspect it’s Nesticodes rufipes (Red House Spider) but can’t file it past family from this image.
I took a couple more…hopefully they are useful. I’ll upload now.
I read online that the red house spider is not poisonous to humans. Is that correct? Also, the pictures I saw online of the red house spider look very much like the spider I caught. I think you’re correct that that is the one. Online it said not to confuse the spider with the redback spider which is poisonous. Do you think it could be the redback instead of the red house spider?
Thank you.
Hi, unfortunately the other images don’t offer enough detail. It’s the dorsal (top of the spider) that I needed to see. I know because she’s hanging upside down in her web that isn’t easy when she’s in a jar. But you can compare and see how similar it is to a Red House Spider (Nesticodes rufipes). Like most spiders they have venom but are not considered to be of medical significance to people. I don’t think it’s a Widow Spider (Latrodectus). Widows/Redbacks (same thing) usually have some variant of the red-hourglass pattern visible on the ventral side (this image is… Read more »