Identify this spider for me??

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darkness_falls8

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Today I was sitting outside on the steps and looked over at one of the potted plants, it was covered in a nice amount of webbing with a tube going down inside the plant, I was curious.. so I took a piece of grass and gently touched the web and this spider dashed out and started attacking it, quite strong I should say as well. What kind is it??

 
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Savvo

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That is a grass spider for sure, but I am not sure of the latin name. I used to grow these guys in my backyard when I was a kid. Great fun to feed. Drop an insect on the web and it'll dash out and drag it down its funnel. I remember them growing pretty darn fast too.
 
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Pulk

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I don't think that's an Agelenopsis sp. All the pictures of them I've seen look very similar to each other, and not very similar to that one. :)
 
pitbulllady

pitbulllady

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This looks exactly like the Agelinopsis that we have here in South Carolina-same web structure, same elongated spinnerettes(which distinguish them from their Tegenaria cousins), same markings and coloration. This one is a female, probably gravid, and that probably makes her look a bit odd since most of the members of the genus that I've seen were on the thin side.

pitbulllady
 
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