Wolf spider at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Venatrix speciosa | 31 Jan 2023 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Venatrix speciosa | 2 Mar 2021 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 15 Aug 2020 | HarveyPerkins |
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User's notes
Briefly found itself on the white tiles of the bathroom floor. Body length ca 18 mm, overall leg-span ca 35 mm x 40 mm.
2 comments
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
15 Aug 2020
Been looking at the photos on CNM - how do you distinguish Venatrix from Allocosa?
KimPullen
wrote:
2 Mar 2021
Hi Harvey. After looking at Volker Framenau's website http://www.lycosidae.info/identification/australia/ I now think this is a Venatrix, possibly V. speciosa or V. esposica. The images for 'Allocosa palabunda' in CNM do not match the figures from the original description of Lycosa [now Allocosa] palabunda, as reproduced in the above website. Regards, Kim.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.036730-35.393708
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Aug 2020 09:32 PM Recorded on
- HarveyPerkins Recorded by
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Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Venatrix speciosa Scientific name
- Wolf spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 715m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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