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SPARASSIDAE Huntsman spiders

Very large hairy spiders with legs all turned sideways and forwards (the spiders can move sideways as well as straight ahead). Often mottled to provide camouflage.

Huntsman Spider Sparassidae

Heteropoda cervina (Brown Huntsman)
The Brown Huntsman is a mottled brown, fast running ground dwelling spider often found in leaf litter. They shelter under bark during the day. They... 

Spider

Holconia immanis - Grey Huntsman
Huntsman Spiders have a flattened body, which allows them to find shelter under loosened bark and other litter. They have eight eyes set in two rows... 

Heteropoda insignis

Holconia insignis (Thorell, 1870)
This sparrassid is not as common as H. immanis, recorded only for Queensland and New South Wales. First described as Voconia insignis by Thorell in... 

Neosparassus

Neosparassus diana (L. Koch, 1875) Badge Huntsman
The Badge Huntsman is active at night, hunting for prey on treetrunks or on foliage. It has a daytime retreat, sometimes made from leaves woven together. The female is fawn to orange to pinkish brown. There is a distinctive black shield with two white spots on the underside of abdomen. The body is... 

Neosparassus

Neosparassus N7 (Undescribed Neosparassus species)
Collected mid June 2009 in a patch of good quality remant dry rainforest known as "The Island" on the northern side of the junction of Fish and... 

Neosparassus

Neosparassus sp
David Hirst (SA Museum) writes: "At a guess this one should be another undescribed species that is green in life even as an adult ... found from... 

Typostola sp. (Giant Green Huntsman)

Neosparassus spp (previously Olios)
A young Huntsman with a lovely green abdomen with two black spots. Photographed at Walton Bridge Reserve on Friday, 18 May 2007. This is a very...