cave spider - sparassidae

arachnid

arachnida

cat ba island

cave spider

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cát Bà

giant crab spider

huntsman spider

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pisauridae

sparassidae

troglobite

Cave spider (Cat Ba, Vietnam) - Identified as Sparassidae family (Huntsman spider / Giant Crab Spider)

If you can identify the exact species, please post a comment.

Scale: about 5 inch diameter (including the legs), i.e. about the actual size on a standard computer monitor.

BTW I found a specimen of probably the same specie in another cave, see here.

Maybe a distant cousin from : this one

that is a tent spider usually they dwell on wall crevices, wall cracks..they have houses like an arab tent...and waits for others insects to pass by and grabs them as fast as it can..this are grabber spiders ..they dont usually wrap ther victims in web..

what is the exact genus? i cannot find any results with "alopidae macamaris". maybe mis-spelled? can you point me to a page with photos similar to that one?

its alopidae macamaris

Hi everybody,
should be a Hunstman Spider. Look at google picture search using the english name, or the latin name: heteropoda.
Cheers,
Martin

thanks. i'm not so sure it's a huntsman spider. this other one (http://www.loupiote.com/photos/19402409.shtml ) looks more like the huntsman. there are discussion by experts unders those two photos on flickr. you can see those discussions by clicking on the thumbnails here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/sets/72157602509811861/

i think thats a tarantula i saw one that looked like this on animal planet i could be wrong though but im pretty sure it is

no, it is definitively not a tarantula. tarantulas have short and hairy legs. look at photos of tarantulas: http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMB_enUS291US303&sourceid=chrome&q=tarantula&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi