Delena cancerides
Social huntsman spider at Yass River, NSW
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| Delena cancerides | MichaelMulvaney | 7 Jul 2022 | |
| Delena cancerides | SenexRugosus | 7 Jul 2022 |
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User's notes
One very large adult living in a crack in timber, accompanied by a very large number of juveniles (?)
3 comments
8 Jul 2022
What are the blue bubbles on the right hand legs (pictures 2 and 3)? Are they ticks?
8 Jul 2022
It looks more like blood (which is blue). He might have been injured somehow.
8 Jul 2022
> It looks more like blood (which is blue). He might have been injured somehow.
Oops. That would have been me with the hydraulic wood splitter :-(
Oops. That would have been me with the hydraulic wood splitter :-(
Location information
- Coordinates 149.159377-34.891740
- Maps Rugosa
- Places Yass River, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 7 Jul 2022 03:25 PM Recorded on
- SenexRugosus Recorded by
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Collections
- SenexRugosus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Delena cancerides Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae) Spiders
Species information
- Delena cancerides Scientific name
- Social huntsman spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1035.5m Recorded at altitude
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