Comments & ID Thoughts
An initial guess would be a baboon spider.
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- Submitted: Apr 3, 2018
- Photographed: Mar 31, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Porterville, South Africa
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers),High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks),Ground layer (leaf litter, dirt, grass, etc),Freshwater river, lake, stream
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Looks like a rare-ish Brachypelma spp (Tarantula)- somebody better than me will have to nail down the species though.
It looks like the pic of a Harpactira Atra female on Tarantupedia. Also agrees with reported locality on that site.
Looks like a Harpactirella.
More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpactirella