Spider identification, poor photo.
I know this is probably not going to work due to the poor quality of the photos (my battery was to flat to turn the flash on) but I thought I'd try.
This was spotted in Upper Hutt, on a door step, the house is probably 200m from the motorway and river.
My guess is it's a false Katipo but it different to the ones I get at my place, at my place they have white dots on the abdomen while this seemed to have a shape and the abdomen had some red, it was a bit dark to tell if the shape was red though.
The spider was probably around the size of a 10c peice or slightly bigger, very solid black and quite black widow like with the longer front legs.
I'm wondering what it could have been?