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Level of Toxicity

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If anyone has any information on how toxic, if at all, these spiders are, please add on to the page. Ace Fool (talk) 21:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ace Fool,

My Father is a doctor in Northern Flordia. He tells me this is 100% true and that it is not a hoax! People have really died from this and it is EXTREMLY toxic!! Check this website: www.msnbc/deadly_indospider.zoomshare.com

New note: 07/15/08 I say you all do your own research. I just got the email that still been going around since 1999 I guess...that this spider is found under toilet seat rim in public restrooms. Well have we thought about all the other bacteria that lingers around in a public restrooms..and creepy part you can't even see it (this dude didn't sign)

Ace Fool, this type of spider is not toxic at all because it doesn't produce venom.
BTW, the link above is not to MSNBC, but rather to some spoofing site that mimics their URL with a trick.
This spider is completely harmless. Actually, it's helpful, but it's not a spider you will find in my part of the country.  ::Jumping spiders are some of man's best friends, and I always put them in my garden when I find them.
No, this spider isn't going to kill you at the toilet. The commenter above is posting that for the Lulz 74.192.158.110 (talk) 18:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If people are gonna claim that this spider is non-venomous, you NEED a source for that. Non-venomous spiders exist (the family Uloboridae being the most frequently given example), but I've never heard of a jumping spider being non-venomous. That would be very unusual.

Note: it's still not dangerous to humans, but saying it's non-venomous suggests that it can kill prey without venom, which is a very unusual ability among spiders. Hannah Davis (talk) 22:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hannah Davis: apart from the hoaxes and false information circulating, this is a classic example of human-centred thinking: because something is not venomous in the sense of being able to envenom humans, it's not venomous full stop. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Telamonia dimidiata
A female Telamonia dimidiata in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore, India. This jumping spider is found in various Asian tropical rain forests. Females can reach a body length of 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in), while males can reach a length of 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in).Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim