Beautiful Badge Huntsman
S9, Abdomen
Beautiful Badge Huntsman
S2, ventral
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| Beautiful Badge Huntsman S9, Abdomen | | Beautiful Badge Huntsman S2, ventral | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||||||||||||||
| Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||||||
| Family: | Huntsman (Sparassidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||||
| Species: | Beautiful Badge Huntsman (Neosparassus cf calligaster)| This Photo: | 🔍S9, Under Legs🔎 | Synonym: | Olios calligaster | Other name: | Shield huntsman spider | Thank you Ben Kurek (BenKurek__), Cael Gallery (Miturgidae) & Eathan Douglas (eathan_douglas) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere The adult male (S9) we measured at ~17mm long, while the Juv Female (S2) was ~14mm long. A very fitting common name! S9 was the most striking Huntsman we've come across. The ventral orange patch was unusually pale/non-existant though. Cael lifted these to genus saying, of N. calligaster "A garbage bin taxon with no diagnosis, and with no useful drawings or figures available, type locality is either Sydney or central Queensland from memory." By this we interprete Cael means that this is one of those taxons that people just lump a whole lot of different species in as they don't know any better. As such, this is probably an undescribed Badge Huntsman, but looks like all the other N. calligaster's on the internet; hence the 'cf' moniker.
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