Hi /an/, I'm living in central europe where your average

>>2198600
First of all, you should know that the odds of it being lethally venomous are almost null, so relax.

Second, your country would help in identification. If you don't feel comfortable telling, look up an online spider identification guide with your country as an input.

>>2198605
The Netherlands. Had visits from people from Malta and the UK recently.

That's a Brown Recluse.

You better burn your house down.

>>2198610
It is not a brown recluse; it has hairs on the legs and the brown recluse is endemic to the continental United States.

>>2198600
It would help if you could give a clearer picture of the spider. How big is it? What patterns does it bear? How many eyes?

>>2198616
I just took care of him/her/it. Don't think I'll be able to get you a clear picture now

It was like 10ish cm's big.

>>2198616
That sounds like something a Brown Recluse would say.

>>2198619
You killed it? That's respectable. I was on the verge of IDing it; you could have appreciated the remnants of the European fauna which has been so brutally winnowed by practices exactly like your own. Hope you feel good.

>>2198622
I'm sorry, but I'm not used to anything larger then a European Garden Spider. This thing looked straight outta Australia or some foreign land. Basic human instinct took over and decided that murder was a valid solution to be applied to unknown entities.

>>2198600
male Eratigena atrica
completely harmless

My gf scares her friends with these pretty often, she has never been bitten by doing so
I think they are too weak to penetrate human skin, like most spiders in central/northern europe

gj on killing it, the poor guy was only looking for a female

>>2198625
I'll give it a proper burial and I'll be nicer if I run into one of them again. Thanks anon.

>>2198624
did you honestly never see one before?
you must be nearly blind then

>>2198627
Never.

20/20 eyesight. Just live in a city and always have/had a cat or dogs. This thing was atleast 5 times bigger then the biggest spider I've ever seen in the wild.

>>2198625
They can puncture skin but you have to be trying really fucking hard to get bitten by one. They're really skittish.

>>2198627
99% of "what is this spider holy fuck I've never seen anything like it before" threads on /an/ are Agelenids. I don't know what most people's general idea of spiders is if they look weird to them.

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I found this animal yesterday, what is it?

>>2198698
Looks like an East Cunninghamshire Dove-Tailed Salmon.

>>2198698
Obviously a brown recluse.

>>2198698
Uglyisa Fugly