Need help with spider identification please. WARNING: CONTAINS PHOTO

[Squiff70]

Can anyone please help me identify this spider? It has taken up residence in our bathroom today - it's alive but not moving much at all (hardly surprising as the bathroom is like a furnace so I want to rescue it if poss). DP keeps telling me it looks dangerous and to squish it but I absolutely don't want to hurt it (unless indeed it does prove to be a nasty little blighter).

I've never had a problem with spiders until I was bitten on the hand by an absolute BEAST of a house spider a few years ago and needed IV antibiotics in hospital so I'm erring on the side of caution.

Anyway, spider (including legs) would be slightly bigger than a 50p coin. It is brown with patterned markings. We are in the UK.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just had a look on Google Images and the tank definitely wasn't an aphid hinting wasp. The body of the wasp is completely different. The tank had a hard, shell-like body too.

We get so many rancid looking insects
in our house, bizarre looking things that I’ve never seen anywhere else. A couple of months ago it was a devils coach horse beetle shudders ….anyway, we had something that looked similar to your tank and it was a black slip wasp shudders again

I find it mad just how many different species of plants, insects, birds and animals are out there, most of which I've never even heard of! When I saw a Sir David Attenborough documentary on the Satin Bowerbird my mind was absolutely blown. Also, the amount of creatures which live in the sea, many of them in incomprehensibly deep parts of the oceans, that even scientists and ecologists didn't know existed! 2022 and we're sending rocket ships to Mars whilst there are so many hidden secrets right here on out home planet. Mad.

I just Googled the Black Slip Wasp. The tank absolutely wasn't one of those either. I would love to find out what it really was one day but it might even have been a weird mish-mash of different species. How that would have happened I have no idea, but still, the search for answers continues!

Some sort of cockchafer? I think they are pointy at the back. Sounds like some kind of beetle anyway

Definitely not a Cockchafer either!

Ooh or there’s something called a giant rhinoceros beetle - body looks thicker but maybe with wing cases open?

Is there really an insect called a cockchafer?!!!

They are utterly adorable.

Are we looking at the same photo???

Yep, and they're actually disturbingly cute, as @Damnautocorrect displayed here!

Sorry was just excitedly scrolling through types of large beetles

Looks like a garden spider to me.

A spider like that took up residence in our kitchen window. We called her Mrs Spiddy and just let her get on with her spider things. She got quite a few fruit flies but unfortunately there weren’t enough for her and one morning she and her web had packed up and gone.

Not sure about the flying tank but I think we had one last week.