1 Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Neosparassus diana | 12 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Neosparassus diana | 12 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 9 Dec 2019 | Marthijn |
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Front, underside and top images. Body size without legs 8 mm. Unfortunately one leg is missing...
Larger image of underside at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oGeNO2Pi05BiLYvAc96Z3Qh6JULOG42l/view?usp=sharing
5 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
13 Dec 2019
Not sure about this one but underneath pattern seems to best match the Diana Badge Huntsman
YumiCallaway
wrote:
13 Dec 2019
I thought it was Neosparassus sp. but wasn't able to find a fit with the right badge—the other species I looked at (and also N. calligaster) didn't have the two spots. H. diana does though and on more detailed reading (that I hadn't done properly previously), arachne.org says
'The female is fawn to orange to pinkish brown. There is a distinctive black shield with two white spots on the underside of abdomen, usually with an orange stripe further towards the rear, this orange sometimes bordered by a black line. The body is flattened, the first two pairs of legs distinctly longer than the others.'
The colour (which I'd previously thought incorrectly as limited to orange) fits, the spots and badge description fits, the two dark spots on the abdomen (above) match with many other photos of this species and there definitely are two pairs of legs distinctly shorter than the other two. Also, the row of 4 eyes (which have been photographed really nicely in #1) are all the same size, whereas N. calligaster has two smaller ones on the middle. Here are some references:
http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2221
http://www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/481.htm
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/353524-Neosparassus-diana/browse_photos
While discussing ID, I have a question: this individual seems to have very light bands of black, then white on the legs (like N. calligaster has, just much more distinctly) which I thought might darken if it's an immature?? I'm probably being too thorough though.
All in all, I think it's much more definitive to ID as N. diana instead of what I previously suggested (N. calligaster)
'The female is fawn to orange to pinkish brown. There is a distinctive black shield with two white spots on the underside of abdomen, usually with an orange stripe further towards the rear, this orange sometimes bordered by a black line. The body is flattened, the first two pairs of legs distinctly longer than the others.'
The colour (which I'd previously thought incorrectly as limited to orange) fits, the spots and badge description fits, the two dark spots on the abdomen (above) match with many other photos of this species and there definitely are two pairs of legs distinctly shorter than the other two. Also, the row of 4 eyes (which have been photographed really nicely in #1) are all the same size, whereas N. calligaster has two smaller ones on the middle. Here are some references:
http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2221
http://www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/481.htm
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/353524-Neosparassus-diana/browse_photos
While discussing ID, I have a question: this individual seems to have very light bands of black, then white on the legs (like N. calligaster has, just much more distinctly) which I thought might darken if it's an immature?? I'm probably being too thorough though.
All in all, I think it's much more definitive to ID as N. diana instead of what I previously suggested (N. calligaster)
Marthijn
wrote:
13 Dec 2019
Thanks all. I found an image with a similar badge at http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/9525
(browsing Neosparassus Diana to the very end at ALA).
(browsing Neosparassus Diana to the very end at ALA).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.065892-35.376959
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 9 Dec 2019 08:49 PM Recorded on
- Marthijn Recorded by
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Collections
Spiders Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae) Marthijn Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Neosparassus diana Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 733.44m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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