Flat bark spider at undefined
Identification history
| Hemicloea sp. | 10 Jun 2018 | jb2602 | ||
| Delena cancerides | 10 Jun 2018 | jb2602 |
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Found on a wall inside a house, looks like a Juvenile Social Huntsman.
4 comments
KerriLee
wrote:
10 Jun 2018
Hi John ... does look similar to Delena, but it's unusually dark. Also, the front two pairs of legs are normally noticeably longer than the other legs (in most huntsman) ... they look almost equal here. It actually looks rather like a Trochanteriidae. I'll ask Stuart Harris what he thinks
jb2602
wrote:
10 Jun 2018
Wonderful Kerri, I've been labouring over this for quite a while. Now that I know what a trochanter is, they don't look unusually long in this spider; but it does seem to have long spines (or at least hairs) on its legs; also it was a very flat spider; it could walk very fast over a plaster wall but I didn't see it on glass. Looks very like Hemicloea, on p154, Robert Whyte & Greg Anderson, A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia.
Harrisi
wrote:
11 Jun 2018
I'd go with Hemicloea sp. as per ref above. Eye formation would be the clinger. Spider in that pic is missing right leg 2.
Location information
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 1 Jun 2018 09:11 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Spiders Other hunting spiders jb2602
Species information
- Hemicloea sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Flat bark spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 669m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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