Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider

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Pisaurina brevipes

Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider, a reference photo
Photo: Patrick Edwin Moran · CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

Pisaurina brevipes is a species of "nursery web spider" that is found in the eastern half of the North American continent, from Ontario down to Florida and west to Kansas.

From Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Classification

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Pisauridae
Species
Pisaurina brevipes

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