Spiders, El Oro, Ecuador (1 Viewer)

birdboybowley

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• Jul 31, 2020

• #1

Saw these two around said area in February - the big and frankly terrifying one was above the door of the eating area - I assume a huntsman sp? U dunno how fast I ran in and out of that place :-O
Second was in the forest itself...
Any arachnid experts out there to put a name to them?



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Andy Adcock

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• Aug 1, 2020

• #2

I'd say the first is a male Heteropoda venatoria, not sure we'll get to the other one.

 

birdboybowley

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• Aug 1, 2020

• #3

Cheers Andy looks good

 

ApusApus

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• Aug 1, 2020

• #4

I think the second is a Wolf Spider of some description but I have no idea which ones are found in Ecuador!


Shane

 

birdboybowley

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• Aug 1, 2020

• #5

Me either, cheers Shane

 

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salticus

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• Aug 6, 2020

• #6

I think the second is a wandering spider, Ctenidae. You can find pictures of similar ones on Flickr but I'm not sure how safe the IDs on there would be. This site might help though -
https://www.wandering-spiders.net/

 

birdboybowley

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• Aug 6, 2020

• #7

Thanks Salticus....grusomely interesting read

 

Andy Adcock

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• Aug 6, 2020

• #8

birdboybowley said:

Thanks Salticus....grusomely interesting read

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