The name House spider is a generic term for different spiders commonly found around human dwellings, and may refer to:
- Yellow Sac spider, Chiracanthium inclusum, a common house spider worldwide.
- Black house spider, Badumna Insignis, an Australian spider also found in New Zealand;
- Brown house spider, Steatoda grossa, a spider with cosmopolitan distribution;
- American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, a cobweb spider;
- Daddy long-legs spiders, of the Pholcidae family;
- Domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica;
- Giant house spider, Tegenaria gigantea;
- Hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis (improperly called aggressive house spider);
- Southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis
- Tiny house spider, Oonops domesticus
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