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Dear community,
does anyone know anything about this spider?
Thanks Thomas
- Submitted by:
- Submitted: Mar 9, 2023
- Photographed: Mar 9, 2023
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Alor, Indonesia
- Spotted Outdoors: Saltwater ocean, river, lake, stream,Forest
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Your fantastic spider is a Huntsman, also called aGiant Crab Spider in family Sparassidae. It looks like it is in genus Pandercetes. There are several possible species. Here is the list of all of the species in the genus, from the World Spider Catalog https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3138 Now I’ll try to narrow down the list.
I found a research paper while I was looking that says there is proof that these spiders can kill and eat lizzards.
Pandercetes nigrogularis is my best guess. A Black-throated Lichen Spider. I would list it as Pandercetes cf. nigrogularis.
Dear TangledWeb,
thank you very mutch for your informations!
Brgds,
Thomas