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This spider belongs to the family Sparassidae, in the genus Neosparassus, commonly known as Huntsman Spiders.
The Neosparassus species pictured here in Alice Springs, NT.
This Huntsman Spider was unfortunately the paralysed prey of an Orange Spider Wasp in Alice Springs. You can read more about the Cryptocheilus bicolor with Prey (Neosparassus sp).
More information about Huntsman Spiders can be seen here:
Fauna > Spiders > Australian Huntsman
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Infraorder: Entelegynae
- Superfamily: Sparassoidea
- Family: Sparassidae
- Subfamily: Deleninae
- Genus: Neosparassus
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