giant crab spider
arachnid
arachnida
araneomorphae
cat ba island
cave spider
caving
close up
cát Bà
giant crab spider
grotto
halong bay cave
heteropodidae
huntsman spider
macro
natural cave
sparassidae
spelunking
troglobite
việt nam
Cave Spider (Cat Ba, Vietnam) - Identified as Sparassidae family, commonly called Huntsman spider or 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.
This one was in this cave on a small deserted island of Halong Bay.
I like the reflection in two of the eight eyes of the spider.
BTW I found a specimen of probably the same specie in another cave, see here.
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