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Brown Huntsman Spider

Heteropoda jugulans

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) thenakedenviro, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 223, February 198, March 197, April 200, May 169, June 97, July 109, August 167, September 237, October 233, November 234, December 212.
Australia2,276
Queensland1,623
New South Wales653

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyHuntsman Spiders · Sparassidae
GenusGiant Huntsman Spiders · Heteropoda

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Brown Huntsman Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.