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
Famous quotes containing the words house and/or spider:
“Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? Such may rail against great buildings.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But chief to heedless flies the window proves
A constant death; where gloomily retired,
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
O’erlooking all his waving snares around.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
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