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FAMILY SPARASSIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Giant Grey Huntsman Spiders that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Male, leg to leg 100mm
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- This is a very large spider, one of the largest Huntsmen found in
Australia. The body is reddish grey in colour, with brown white bended legs.
There is the dark brown dagger pattern on top of abdomen. Pictures show a
male. We can tell it is a male by its larger palps. Female is even larger,
has the relatively larger abdomen and smaller palps, otherwise look the
same.
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- We found the spider when it was hiding under loose bark of a large
smooth-bark gum tree. When disturbed, it jumped onto the ground and ran
away.
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- From the experience we encounter with this spider and other Huntsmen
Spiders, we believed their eye sight is very poor. For this spider, it could
not distinguish my leg and a tree trunk from half a meter. When the spider was
on the floor, it tried to ran to a tree trunk for shelter, it then ran towards
my leg. When I moved, it knew it was not a tree trunk than it jumped and ran
to a real tree trunk.
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- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest on Nov 2007 early summer.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 1995, p30.
- 2. Huntsman
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The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian
Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
- 3. Australian Spiders in colour - Ramon Mascord, Reed Books Pty
Ltd, 1970, p32.
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