Awesome looking spider. Please help identify.

Awesome looking spider. Please help identify.

Postby Sfourie » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:35 pm

Hi All

Struggling with this one in our study group. It was submitted by a fellow student for identification but no one has been able to come up with an answer. Can anyone please identify this awesome looking spider? It was found in South Africa but the particulars of the location have not been shared yet.

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Stefan

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Re: Awesome looking spider. Please help identify.

Postby Ceratogyrus » Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:37 am

It is a Nursery web spider (Pisauridae Euprosthenops sp.)
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Re: Awesome looking spider. Please help identify.

Postby Sfourie » Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:53 pm

Thank you very much Ceratogyrus.
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Re: Awesome looking spider. Please help identify.

Postby F1refly » Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:39 pm

cr@p it, beat me to it. I've seen so many of these spiders I know what they are from a glance.
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