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ElayneN
Dec 31, 2008, 12:04 PM
This spider jumped out at me when I was taking down the artificial Christmas tree. Can anyone identify it?
FlyYakker
Jan 5, 2009, 08:02 PM
I suspect it is a Wolf Spider of some one kind or the other. Maybe a young one.
gnahcd
May 13, 2009, 04:35 PM
I asked our entomologist to give his opinion. This might be a huntsman spider. Without the actual specimen to confirm the identity, this should only be considered a tentative ID.

If you search the internet, you will find that there are many different species of huntsman spiders and crab spiders (Family Sparassidae), and they don't all look alike.

File:Huntsman spider grey bg04.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huntsman_spider_grey_bg04.jpg)
Huntsman spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparassidae)
Family Sparassidae - Giant Crab Spiders - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/6928/bgimage?from=0)
Spider Identification Chart - Venomous or Dangerous? (http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html)