Social Huntsman Spider: Adult Female, anterior

Social Huntsman Spider (Delena cancerides)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Huntsman (Sparassidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Social Huntsman Spider (Delena cancerides)

This Photo:

🔍Adult Female, anterior🔎

Thank you Ben Kurek for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Adult female ~18mm long.
We found her inside our rain guage, gave us quite a shock.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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