Holconia immanis
| Holconia immanis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Section: | Entelegynae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Holconia |
| Species: | H. immanis |
| Binomial name | |
| Holconia immanis L. Koch, 1867 | |
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Holconia immanis, commonly known as the Sydney huntsman spider, is a species of huntsman spider found in eastern Australia.
Holconia immanis - near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia in 2009
Female specimen in the Australian Museum
It was previously known as Isopeda immanis for many years. It is one of the largest species of huntsman in Australia and can have a body length of 4.5 cm and outstretched legs can measure 16 cm across.[2]
The Sydney huntsman was described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1867 as Delena immanis,[1] the specimen collected in Brisbane.[3]
British amateur arachnologist Henry Roughton Hogg placed it in the genus Isopeda.[4]
References
- 1 2 Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (25 June 2012). "Species Holconia immanis (L. Koch, 1867)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian Government. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
- ↑ Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. pp. 115–16. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.
- ↑ Koch, Ludwig Carl Christian (1867). "Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 17: 173-250 [208].
- ↑ Hogg. Henry Roughton (1903). "On the Australasian spiders of the subfamily Sparassinae". Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. (2): 414-66 [433-35].
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