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tarantula3898
09-24-2007, 04:26 AM
When I was a kid my buddy found this spider in the forest about 10 miles outside of Milwaukee. We searched for days on the net trying to match a picture to this guy. Our best 2 matches was a wolf spider and Tegenaria agrestis.
Well I was digging in the closet and found this old photo and was hoping someone could solve my age old mystery. I am a little more knowledgeable now, and my best guess is Tegenaria gigantica, but I can only make that guess from net pics.
Hope you have better luck than I have.

tarantula3898
09-26-2008, 05:36 AM
I'm bumping this in hopes that someone can help me out with some good solid Gigantea pics. I have found some decent Hobo, and Domestic pics and there is no way it is one of them. I'm going to add that this spider at some point was longer than 2 quarters, and that it's body size alone was slightly longer than a single quarter.

Found in the woods just outside Milwaukie, Oregon.

ErikWestblom
09-26-2008, 07:34 AM
Yeah looks like Tegenaria duellica (same as Tegenaria gigantea), but the Tegenaria species are very similar, so a positive ID might be hard :(

crpy
09-26-2008, 08:01 AM
My guess is T. gigantea as well.