Heteropoda

Picture ID 5312

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Found this spider drowned in the bathtub in Moorea, Tahiti.

Submitted by:
janellen
Submitted: Feb 12, 2018
Photographed: Feb 11, 2018
Spider: Heteropoda
Sex:
Male,
Maturity:
Adult
Location: Temae, French Polynesia
Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
Found in web?: No
Attributes: Dorsal, Eyes

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ItsyBitsy

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February 12, 2018 11:03 am

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a male Huntsman Spider (Sparassidae), probably a Heteropoda sp.. I can’t tell if it’s H. venatoria … I also see an H. nobilis listed for Polynesia. (Is that a typo above, that should read Tahiti not Tahini?)