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MeteoRa · Nov 3, 2004

The spider just molted today... so I manage to take a closer picture of the exuvium... Any idea of the correct species of the spider... :?

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks :worship:

Elizabeth · Nov 3, 2004

That's a very good shot of the eyes/eye pattern. Someone should be able to get it? I don't even have a good starting idea and I have to make dinner, or else I would start looking in the books for you. Did you post pics in an earlier thread (showing the spider generally?) (I've been very busy lately and I think I've missed a lot of thread movement.)

MeteoRa · Nov 3, 2004

Elizabeth said:
That's a very good shot of the eyes/eye pattern. Someone should be able to get it? I don't even have a good starting idea and I have to make dinner, or else I would start looking in the books for you. Did you post pics in an earlier thread (showing the spider generally?) (I've been very busy lately and I think I've missed a lot of thread movement.)

I did post the picture earlier... the picture was so blur...
it was just wild guessing....

Fred · Nov 4, 2004

I'm guessing huntsman I don't know the scientific name.

Haplopelmatic · Nov 4, 2004

It's kinda hard to get a clear view of the abdomen, but my guess would be a Lycosa spec. Additional pix from other angles would be a great help.

/Bleargh!

Wade · Nov 4, 2004

In a lycosid, the center top 2 eyes would be much larger, and the bottom row would be more curved. This is based on the drawings in a field guide, so I could be wrong, but the large eyes are a distictive feature of wolf spiders.

The eye arrangement looks like a huntsman to me. Which one, I have no idea, but Heteropoda venatoria is a common, wide spread species from the warmer parts of the world including the southern US. Where was the spider collected?

Wade

MeteoRa · Nov 4, 2004

Wade said:
In a lycosid, the center top 2 eyes would be much larger, and the bottom row would be more curved. This is based on the drawings in a field guide, so I could be wrong, but the large eyes are a distictive feature of wolf spiders.

The eye arrangement looks like a huntsman to me. Which one, I have no idea, but Heteropoda venatoria is a common, wide spread species from the warmer parts of the world including the southern US. Where was the spider collected?

Wade

The spider was collected in Malaysia...but is there wolf spiders or huntsman species in Malaysia...

Wade · Nov 4, 2004

There are definately huntsman spiders (Family: Sparassidae) in Malaysia, and I'd be surprised if there weren't wolfs as well, but I'm pretty sure yours is not a wolf (Lycosidae).

H. venatoria is "cosmotropical" meaning that it pretty much lives all over the world wherever it's warm enough. I'm assuming it could be in Malaysia, so that species remains a possibility. On the other hand, Malyasia has other huntsmen as well, so it could just as easily be something else. I can't help you much there, hopefully someone here is familliar with the spiders of Malaysia and can help further.

I should also add there's the distict possibility that I'm entirely wrong and it's something else entirely

Wade

oblivion56 · Nov 4, 2004

wade,your the man! :clap:

MeteoRa · Nov 4, 2004

Wade said:
There are definately huntsman spiders (Family: Sparassidae) in Malaysia, and I'd be surprised if there weren't wolfs as well, but I'm pretty sure yours is not a wolf (Lycosidae).

H. venatoria is "cosmotropical" meaning that it pretty much lives all over the world wherever it's warm enough. I'm assuming it could be in Malaysia, so that species remains a possibility. On the other hand, Malyasia has other huntsmen as well, so it could just as easily be something else. I can't help you much there, hopefully someone here is familliar with the spiders of Malaysia and can help further.

I should also add there's the distict possibility that I'm entirely wrong and it's something else entirely

Wade

Thanks Wade... at least i got a lead... I might be able to get something with your information.... :worship:

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