Spider ID Please

[Satchmo]

Hello all, not been here for some time

I found a Spider where I was living a month or so back and have just found some awful pics of it. Hopefully, they will have enough detail for someone to make an ID. The spider itself was no more than 10mm in length and was found in Blackburn, Lancashire indoors.

Any help is grately appreciated, It's good to know the neighbours

Thanks

Simon

EDIT: I can't seem to find the forum images Gallery anymore, anyone know where it has gone?

[Venger]

Well, we'll need to see the photos then won't we
I think the upload problem is fixed, though I cant see the unidentified or the forum images galleries?

[Satchmo]

Flickr Photo Download: spider1

Flickr Photo Download: spider2

The pics aren't great but....

Thanks

Simon

[Venger]

It's an Amaurobius spp can't narrow it down without a microscope or field lens though.
These can give you a nip if you annoy them but apart from that nice spiders.

[Satchmo]

Thanks for the help Venger, looks like you were spot on

I haven't seen a funnel web before so I'm going to see if I can find it.

Simon

[demicav]

Definately Amaurobius. I've got first hand experience at being bitten by one but it was self defence. We've loads outside, occasionally they wander inside, usually the males although I was nipped by a female. Yours is a female. They're lovely really.

[clicka15]

It's quite possibly A. similis, but as Venger said, Amaurobius specimens are difficult to separate into species without examining the sexual organ (epigyne). I have either A. similis or A. fenestralis living in my fence in the garden.

Someone recently told me that you're more likely to find A. similis living closer to the house (i.e. in a fence) and A. fenestralis living on trees and similar things, but I'm not sure if they are right!

Lovely little spiders all the same - whatever they are.