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- This page contains pictures and information about Huntsman Spiders that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Huntsman Spiders are medium to large size spiders, usually with flattened
body, in brown or grey colours. The spiders
have crab-like legs (all legs bend forwards), and they can walk sideway. Their front two pairs of legs are usually much
longer than back. They run fast, hunts by chasing after prey.
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 - They have eight eyes in two rows of four.
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 - Huntsman juveniles, leg to leg 10mm
- Brown Huntsman Spider
 - Heteropoda jugulans, leg to leg 70mm
- The spider's body and the hairy legs are brown in colour. Notice the 'X' mark on
carapace (small photo). This spider does not build webs but hunts on the ground.
Sometimes they will come indoors and run around on our walls and ceilings.
We took the above two pictures in two days in the same spot, during early summer at night in our back yard. This
Huntsman Spider has been waiting in the same spot for many days. We have
detail information and pictures about this spider in this page.
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- Brown Huntsman Spider
 - Heteropoda cervina, leg
to leg 40mm
- Reference:
- 1. Australian Spiders in colour - Ramon Mascord, Reed Books Pty Ltd,
1970, p32
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- Shield Huntsman Spider
  - Neosparassus salacius (former Olios salacius), leg to leg 80mm
- We found this Shield Huntsman Spider (also know as Badge Huntsman Spider)
in a shelter made by silk and leaves on a gum tree. When we examined its
shelter, the spider jumped onto the ground and quickly ran away. The spider is pale brown in
colour, no marking on the thorax.
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- Bark Huntsman Spider
 - Pediana regina, leg to leg 50mm
- This spider has a Y-shaped pattern on its back. It was found
hunting on tree trunk and had the flattened body. The patterns on the upper
surfaces of thorax and abdomen are distinctive. Please also check this page
for more details.
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- Giant Green Huntsman Spider
 - ? Typostola or Olios sp., leg to leg 80mm
- Pictures taken in Karawatha forest during mid summer. Notice its front two pairs of legs are much longer than tha back. Click
here for more pictures and information on
this spider.
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- Giant Grey Huntsman Spider
 - Holconia immanis (former Isopeda immanis), leg to leg 100mm
- 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. Female is even larger, has the relatively larger abdomen and smaller
palps, otherwise look the same. Please click on here
for more pictures and information.
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- Giant Huntsman Spider
 - ? Typostola sp., leg to leg 100mm
- This very large spider was hiding under the lose bark of a gum tree. Its thorax was round and brown in
colour, with a 'X' mark on its carapace. It ran very fast. After I
took this picture, it ran away up to the gum tree and disappeared in a
second. More information can be found in this page.
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- Unknown
Sparassid
 - ? Neosparassus sp.
leg to leg 30mm
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Unknown sparassid
- The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian
Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007
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- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p42.
- 2. Huntsman - Spiders of Australia, by Ed Nieuwenhuys, 2006.
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