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Spider (ID)

Sat 20 Oct, 2012 8:29 am

Can anyone please help i.d this spider. It has a nasty bite..

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sorry, not the best pics, around 10mm long.

Re: Spider (ID)

Sat 20 Oct, 2012 4:03 pm

Could be one of the sac spider group ?
check out this site
http://www.tasmanianspiders.info/database.htm

Re: Spider (ID)

Mon 22 Oct, 2012 5:54 pm

ok, yes, sac spider (ah..herm.. )
one to watch out for (coastal tas) a lot like an infected leech bite... lump, itchy, so on. Perhaps they are having a good season, iv'e found three so far.

Re: Spider (ID)

Mon 22 Oct, 2012 6:47 pm

My "spider" man thinks it is a jumping spider owing to it large front legs, the marking on the head of your sample looks like this one.
http://www.tasmanianspiders.info/A020.htm
What do you think
corvus

Re: Spider (ID)

Sun 04 Nov, 2012 12:06 pm

I have another one to ID. I found this guy lurking around while I was having my dinner at The Font last Sunday. He was in amongst the rocks, but the area is filled with alpine scrub, scoparia etc.

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Re: Spider (ID)

Sun 04 Nov, 2012 1:29 pm

Looks like a Tasmanian Wolf Spider.
check this one out http://www.tasmanianspiders.info/022.htm
corvus

Re: Spider (ID)

Sun 04 Nov, 2012 1:36 pm

I thought it may have been, it looks much like this, but it is unlikey to be any sort of cave spider.
http://www.tasmanianspiders.info/A008.htm

Re: Spider (ID)

Mon 05 Nov, 2012 1:46 pm

Yer, woolfy I'd say too, the 'watchers' at the edge of a torchlight, eerie when walking on snow at night.. They're everywhere . Not much of a photo though, so a bit hard to tell..Did it bite?

Still have a welt from mine &@"$&@. Right over the jugular vein :shock: :shock: . I'd imagine some could really suffer a reaction. Jumping spider..hmmm. It has short legs and fat body..

I was talking to a parky at cradle, f/webs quiet common around the area/ in buildings. Cant recall seeing any in the park/ up higher (not that I have looked, not a spider buff)
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