house spider

English

Noun

house spider (plural house spiders)

1. Any spider or kind of spider that dwells in human residences.
   1. yellow sac spider, Cheiracanthium inclusum, a common house spider worldwide.
   2. black house spider, Badumna insignis, an Australian spider also found in New Zealand;
   3. brown house spider, Steatoda grossa, a spider with cosmopolitan distribution;
   4. American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, a cobweb spider;
   5. daddy long-legs spiders, of the Pholcidae family;
   6. domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica;
   7. giant house spider, Eratigena atrica, syn. Tegenaria gigantea;
   8. hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, aggressive house spider;
   9. southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis;
   10. tiny house spider, Oonops domesticus

Further reading

• house spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia