Found this fellow wandering around the backyard. I think it is a Black House Spider. Anyone have any ideas? @kporte Keith? It was about 2.5cm long.
I don't like the brown background but couldn't work out what to do with it.
Stop Press. Just had confirmation from the spiderman at the University of Southern Qld that it is a male Seqocrypta jakara (Brisbane brush-footed trapdoor). It's a long story how I have this connection to U of SQ.
Maybe you could have picked him up and carried him around until you found a suitable background. I have just googled and you can handle with caution apparently :))))))
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Just had confirmation from the spiderman at the University of Southern Qld that it is indeed a male Seqocrypta jakara (Brisbane brush-footed trapdoor). It's a long story how I have this connection to U of SQ.
@hermann If you Googled it, I am assuming you ended up at the Find-a-Spider web site? If you did, try it again and have a look at the copyright on the photo they have there :-) There will soon be a male photo to go with the female. LOL
Oh my word I knew there was a reason why I don't want to come to Australia!! I would die if I found this anywhere near me!! I am absolutely useless when it comes to spiders especially large ones!! Luckily there are no poisonous ones here!! Ah yes I remember now why I went to NZ on my big trip and not Australia. You also have deadly snakes - I would be a nervous wreck!! How stupid is that!! LOL!! Apart from all that - a great capture that will be of huge interest to people on the Find a spider web site.
@888rachel Did you see my comment to Sally above? I haven't seen any evidence at all of where these guys are living but this is the second one we have photographed - the first was in 2008. The Spiderman at UofSQ was quite excited to get my first shot as he didn't have one for his Spider web site.
Just had confirmation from the spiderman at the University of Southern Qld that it is indeed a male Seqocrypta jakara (Brisbane brush-footed trapdoor). It's a long story how I have this connection to U of SQ.