| An
elusive Huntsman Spider (Sparassidae) - a possible new record for Singapore? |
| She
was found on a small secondary forest tree, Commersonia bartramia,
at the fringe of the mangrove at Khatib Bongsu on the 4 June 2004. It had a 4 to 5cm leg-spread. Aggressive fellow she was! She raised her 2nd pair of limbs towards my camera and stood her ground, having had the misfortune of being chased by me for sometime prior. Initially, she played hide-and-seek, switching from one surface of the leaf to the next with lightning speed. (Photo below) Her limbs were covered with short black spines. I have never seen this species before, and could find no matching description in Joseph K.H. Koh's 'A Guide to Common Singapore Spiders', first published in 1989 by Singapore Science Centre. Here's something I saw two-and-a-half weeks later - Spider Stompin' ! Please don't ever do that to real spiders! See... Crab Spider | Hasselt's Spiny Spider | Forest Fractal | |
