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The Five Arachnid families  >  Spiders of Borneo  >  Part 6 Family Sparassidae

Huntsman spiders (Family Sparassidae is formerly Heteropodidae)

FAMILY SPARASSIDAE - Huntsman Spiders or Giant Crab Spiders
 Family Sparassidae 巨蟹蛛科 Huntsman Spiders

Family Sparassidae
巨蟹蛛科 (遁蛛科 ,高腳蛛科)
Huntsman Spiders

Huntsman spiders are known by their speed and mode of hunting. Also are called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometimes are referred to as wood spiders, because of their preference for woody places.

Recent records of Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae) spider species from Borneo Island

Heteropoda davidbowieHeteropoda sp BORNEO-3Olios scalptor 雕刻奧利蛛Palystes sp BORNEO 巨蟹蛛科新種於婆羅洲島Thelcticopis sp MRH 塞蛛新種於婆羅洲島Heteropoda boiei 巨蟹蛛Heteropoda sp TBLHeteropoda natansRhitymna pinangensisPandercetes sp BORNEO

GUIDE TO COMMON SPIDERS IN BORNEO ISLAND (Total 7 parts)
The number of spider species of Borneo is getting too large to list into just one page, so this long list is divided into following smaller manageable seven parts:
 

Part 1 : Family : Salticidae - Jumping Spiders

Part 2 : Family Araneidae - Orb Web Spiders

Part 3 : Family Thomisidae - Crab Spiders

Part 4 : Family Theridiidae - Tangle web spider

Part 5 : Family Tetragnathidae - Big-jawed Spiders

Part 6 : Family Sparassidae - Huntsman Spiders

Part 7 : All other minority spider families - New genus, less encountered species etc..

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