Portacosa cinerea

Grey wolf spider at Higgins, ACT

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Identification history

Portacosa cinerea	26 Jun 2019	KimPullen
Portacosa cinerea	20 Jun 2019	MichaelMulvaney
Stanwellia sp. (genus)	18 Jun 2019	AlisonMilton

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Varying sizes. At least 10 small spiders in their own nest, with one adult female (photos 4 & 5). At least one young spider still resident in the adult's nest (photo 3).

5 comments

Harrisi wrote:

19 Jun 2019

Definitely not Stanwellia sp., nor any other of infraorder Mygalomorph. At a glance looks more like family Lycosidae (Wolf spiders), or similar, of Araneomorph infraorder, or modern spiders.

KimPullen wrote:

27 Jun 2019

Images 1, 4 and 5 are Portacosa cinerea. Images 2 & 3 would be better as a separate sighting - they are either young P. cinerea, or a different species (of wolf spider) altogether.

AlisonMilton wrote:

28 Jun 2019

Okay thanks

AlisonMilton wrote:

6 Jul 2019

Hi Kim, I've removed image 2 and replaced it with the adult spider that was in the same hole as the juvenile in image 3. I didn't include it before as you can't see its back so not sure if you can identify it. This may however help with the ID of the spider in image 3.

KimPullen wrote:

13 Jul 2019

Thanks Alison. The spider in image 3 looks a bit different, but I will now assume it's the same species if they were in the same burrow. I can't imagine a wolf spider being very tolerant of another unrelated spider in its own burrow!

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