Portacosa cinerea
Grey wolf spider at Higgins, ACT
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| Portacosa cinerea | KimPullen | 26 Jun 2019 | |
| Portacosa cinerea | MichaelMulvaney | 20 Jun 2019 | |
| Stanwellia sp. (genus) | AlisonMilton | 18 Jun 2019 |
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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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.032062-35.236840
- Altitude 627.0m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 11 Abundance
- 20 Mar 2019 01:58 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
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- AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Portacosa cinerea Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) Spiders
Species information
- Portacosa cinerea Scientific name
- Grey wolf spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1003m Recorded at altitude
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