Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Mygalomorph (male Tarantula?). I’m not well versed in them or the species in your area so I don’t have a genus suggestion. Hopefully someone else will offer some insight otherwise I’ll keep looking.
Hello, thanks for your response, that insight is very helpful to me. If it is a Mygalomorph, then it would most likely be a male mouse spider, which is what I wondered about, although I always thought of them as a bit rounder and thicker. But I have certainly seen mouse spiders here before (Melbourne, Australia). To my knowledge, we don’t get Australian tarantulas as far south as here in Victoria, but we do get those guys. Or it could be a black house spider possibly? It was quite shy of me and the photo is not super. Thanks for… Read more »
Hi again, nope, I think I have got it as a Melbourne trapdoor, apparently they come inside rarely when looking for mates. I thought it was not squat and stocky enough to be a mouse spider.
Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This is a Mygalomorph (male Tarantula?). I’m not well versed in them or the species in your area so I don’t have a genus suggestion. Hopefully someone else will offer some insight otherwise I’ll keep looking.
Hello, thanks for your response, that insight is very helpful to me. If it is a Mygalomorph, then it would most likely be a male mouse spider, which is what I wondered about, although I always thought of them as a bit rounder and thicker. But I have certainly seen mouse spiders here before (Melbourne, Australia). To my knowledge, we don’t get Australian tarantulas as far south as here in Victoria, but we do get those guys. Or it could be a black house spider possibly? It was quite shy of me and the photo is not super. Thanks for… Read more »
Hi again, nope, I think I have got it as a Melbourne trapdoor, apparently they come inside rarely when looking for mates. I thought it was not squat and stocky enough to be a mouse spider.