Social Huntsman Spider
Adult Female, Palp		Ellura
Social Huntsman Spider
Adult Female, Abdomen		 
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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.
Copyright © 2023-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-Jun-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.