Polybetes pythagoricus

Picture ID 6383

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This crawled out from behind a curtain in my daughters room. Quite large, abdomen maybe 1.5 “ long. We are currently right along the coast in Uruguay, in a residential neighborhood.

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karelaorange
Submitted: Mar 3, 2018
Photographed: Mar 3, 2018
Spider: Polybetes pythagoricus
Location: Punta Ballena, Uruguay
Spotted Indoors: Other
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal

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ItsyBitsy

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March 3, 2018 11:27 am

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Huntsman Spider/Giant Crab Spider, looks like Polybetes pythagoricus.
http://www.ecoregistros.org/site/imagen.php?id=188426

Karelaorange

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Reply to ItsyBitsy

March 3, 2018 11:58 am

Thanks! Thought it might be based on photos, but paranoia made me doubt. These are not poisonous to humans, correct?

ItsyBitsy

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Reply to Karelaorange

March 3, 2018 12:17 pm

So far as I am aware they are not considered to be of significant medical significance, unfortunately the effects of a bite from many species is not well documented. Doing a quick search on the matter I came across an excerpt from a book that includes an account of someone who was reportedly bit by a Polybetes sp. who subsequently was ill for a week and had an ulcer that took many weeks to heal … but that account is from 1909! Who knows what other medical conditions that individual may have had, and it’s only one account from over… Read more »