Hemicloea sp. (genus)

Flat bark spider at undefined

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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.

KerriLee wrote:

11 Jun 2018

Thanks Stuart - much appreciated.

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