jeremy540's Identifications

Sighting and photos (c) rod1.
Field Notes - Body size of two five cent pieces
Similar to previously submitted spider but no silver on abdomen
Whole spider between a twenty and a fifty cent piece size
Not aggressive but very quick and fast to reapond to stimulii

Possibly a ‘Wolf Spider’ according to the ‘SA Field Guide’ app.
Quite large 40-50mm across the legs. It was not aggressive but I would not push my luck.
It was walking around our camp wood pile early in the evening.

Toowoomba Trapdoor (Euoplos sp.) near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Photographed on 14 June 2005.

See discussion on this species by Ron Atkinson at www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/202.htm

This large spider had crawled up inside a rolled section of snake wire (6 mm square mesh). I was worried s/he might not be able to get out, so I carefully opened the roll and gently shook it...spider dropped to the ground and waited while I lifted the wire away. S/he was in no hurry to get away so I photographed and left. S/he was gone later, so I guess is safely busy somewhere in our backyard forest. I was a bit concerned it might be a Funnelweb and was very glad to have someone id it as a False Funnelweb, or Wishbone Spider. Apparently those fangs can do some damage, but this spider's venom is not nearly as toxic as Funnelweb's - phew!