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Spider Photos - Huntsman - 2010 |
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Many people are confused by
5 similar looking spiders - the harmless Huntsman, Wolf
Spider, Southern House Spider (Kukulcania), Fishing
Spider and
the notorious Brown Recluse. Occasionally, the Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda
venatoria (Linnaeus), is misidentified as a Brown Recluse. However, the
colour pattern on the carapace of this species is reversed, with a light
median mark on a dark background, and adults of this spider are much
larger than a brown recluse. Huntsman spiders are large, long-legged spiders, measuring up to 15 cm across the legs. They are mostly grey to brown, sometimes with banded legs. Many huntsman spiders, especially Delena (the flattest), and including Isopeda, Isopedella and Holconia, have rather flattened bodies adapted for living in narrow spaces under loose bark or rock crevices. This is aided by their legs which, instead of bending vertically in relation to the body, have the joints twisted so that they spread out forwards and laterally in crab-like fashion ("giant crab spiders"). Both Brown (Heteropoda) and Badge (Neosparassus) Huntsman spiders have less flattened bodies. Huntsman spiders, like all spiders, moult in order to grow and often their old skin may be mistaken for the original spider when seen suspended on bark or in the house. The lifespan of most Huntsman species is about two years or more. Predators of Huntsman Spiders include birds and geckoes, Spider Wasps, nematode worms and egg parasites (wasps and flies).
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Huntsman spiders are not found in the United States any further north
than Southern California. They can not survive but in the most tropical
of situations which are hot all year round, or in desert scrubland like
the Olios giganteus on my website. That is one thing to consider before
labelling a spider from the states as a Huntsman. Most are imported, and
fewer than 3 species are common enough to be called native to this
country, besides some smaller Olios species, which are found in the
southwest (not San Francisco, which is in Northern California). While
you may in some rare instance find a huntsman up north, it'll die as
soon as season changes occur. - Paul Day |
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Reply: This is a female huntsman and
she is guarding her egg sac - glen
3 January, 2010:
This Guy Was in my patio sun umbrella we were in 150klm
north of Cabo San lucas in Baja Mexico he is apx 2-2-1/2 in
any info would help
Thank you
Robert |
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