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This is the second of two spiders I found in an Amazon parcel delivery box.
I have no knowledge of spiders so I won’t even guess, but ‘common things are common’, so I imagine it’s not anything rare.
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- Submitted: Apr 23, 2019
- Photographed: Apr 22, 2019
- Spider: Scotophaeus blackwalli (Mouse Spider)
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes: Dorsal
May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019
Seattle, 
Hi there this spider may be a Amaurobius ferox (Black Lace-Weaver):3
Thank you! You were very quick!!
This is one of the Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) – tentative at species level because it’s a big family with a lot of easy to confuse species, and I don’t know where your Amazon package has been … the likely suspect though is Scotophaeus blackwalli – commonly known as Mouse Spider but not to be confused with other unrelated medically significant species (Missulena spp.) that share the same common name. Compare to: https://spiderid.com/picture/1659/
You may be able to find out what Amazon warehouse packaged the item from a code on the shipping label. We have warehouse codes on American Amazon labels. You can search the code online for the location. For example, mine say BOS5, which is a distribution warehouse in Stoughton, Massachusetts, USA.