Comments & ID Thoughts
Looks like a tarantula, Has a hump on the cephalothorax part, I handled it and it was not bolty and aggressive but rather slow and calm.
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- Submitted: Feb 1, 2021
- Photographed: Jan 30, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Don Salvador Benedicto, Philippines, Philippines
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Resembles a Ground Crab Spider (Thomisidae) in the Tmarus genus. It might be in a different genus but it does appear to be in the Thomisidae family. The only species I found in the Philippines is Tmarus dostinikus.