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11-08-2010, 11:45 AM
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| |  Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
Has one of world's deadliest 'Funnel web' spiders been found in Gloucester? | Mail Online
So what do we think people? Has the Sydney Funnel-web found it's way to Britain?
Personally I doubt it, but the blurred picture doesn't help. All of the Sydney Funnel-web pics I can find show a much stouter spider with an unmarked abdomen. This specimen appears to have longer legs, although the marks on the abdomen could be abrasions of some kind.
As for the size, 1.5 inch, I always assume that alarmed people have over-estimated the spiders size, not at all uncommon. The Humming-bird Hawk Moth it's sitting on is supposed to have a body length of 21-25mm, so the spider looks to be smaller than that, certainly less than 1.5 inches!
Much as I doubt this is the famous Sydney Funnel-web, I'd like to see what everyone thinks.  |
11-08-2010, 04:26 PM
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| | | Re: Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
Looks more like Amaurobius ferox from that photo. Not Segestria I think, and not Atrax.
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11-08-2010, 07:45 PM
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| | | Re: Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
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Originally Posted by John_M  Looks more like Amaurobius ferox from that photo. Not Segestria I think, and not Atrax. | lol seconds to that 
Some journalist is going to feel like a right twit when they find out about this.
Thats said i'm sure the paper will just run another story with fearsome biter Amaurobius ferox new to our shores bla bla bla |
11-08-2010, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by wildherbalian85 lol seconds to that
Some journalist is going to feel like a right twit when they find out about this.
Thats said i'm sure the paper will just run another story with fearsome biter Amaurobius ferox new to our shores bla bla bla | That's why it's called ferox! |
11-08-2010, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by John_M That's why it's called ferox! | lol, until now i didn't know that ferox was latin for fearsome... what a choice for a word |
11-08-2010, 09:45 PM
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11-08-2010, 09:56 PM
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| | | Re: Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
The 'Hummingbird Hawkmoth' is a Lime Hawkmoth too, not a great article all in all
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11-08-2010, 11:38 PM
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| | | Re: Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
Usual journalistic sensationalism - no change there surprise, surprise  .
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12-08-2010, 04:30 PM
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| | | Re: Atrax Robustus, or Segestria florentina?
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Originally Posted by GuyF The 'Hummingbird Hawkmoth' is a Lime Hawkmoth too, not a great article all in all
Guy | So our dear friends at the newspaper got the name of the moth wrong, and the breed of spider wrong twice. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised!
Beautiful spider though, but I'm guessing the newspaper's readers probably wouldn't agree!  | | |
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