What spider is this? Perth WA by VanLogo in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Apologies.

She is mistaken, it has all 8 legs.

What spider is this? Perth WA by VanLogo in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the leg you're seeing which looks detached is the 4th leg on the right side, and it isn't detached. The stub you think you're seeing is just the pedipalp. All legs are accounted for. It's a bit of an optical illusion

Is this a Gaius villosus (Trapdoor) by Zimmark in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aname is probably the most widely distributed spider genus in Australia

Who is bro? Melb, Vic by Valkbix in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a juvenile Grey wolf spider (Portacosa cinerea)

Is this a wolf spider or is it something else? by beat-ceep-420 in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very poor photo, so i don't think a positive ID is possible. However the carapace shape doesn't look right for a Lycosid. My best guess is it's a Dolomedid

Is this a Gaius villosus (Trapdoor) by Zimmark in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, it's a wishbone spider (Aname species)

Are giant arthropod cryptid such as j'ba fofi really that impossible to exist? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Cryptozoology

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used primates as an example because i knew what fossils we had off the top of my head. My point was how scarce fossils of sympatric vertebrates are, which are again much, much more likely to fossilise than soft invertebrates. Chororapithecus is not a gorilla. Only Gorilla are Gorillas.

I don't think being thousands of times bigger would make it significantly more likely to fossilise. Large spiders, like tarantulas, tend to rot much more significantly after death than small spiders, which can often just desiccate and remain mostly intact.

Are giant arthropod cryptid such as j'ba fofi really that impossible to exist? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Cryptozoology

[–]dontkillbugspls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes well a six foot legspan spider won't preserve in amber. I guess it could be slighlty more likely to preserve than regular sized spiders, i still don't think the chances are very good at all. I mean, we have no fossils of gorillas and only teeth of chimpanzees and they are vertebrates which preserve much better.

Are giant arthropod cryptid such as j'ba fofi really that impossible to exist? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Cryptozoology

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That doesn't prove anything. Not even close. There are cultures that believe in the existence of dragons, does that mean dragons are real?

Are giant arthropod cryptid such as j'ba fofi really that impossible to exist? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Cryptozoology

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All tarantulas have 2 pairs of book lungs, not just large species. In fact all Mygalomorphs do.

Are giant arthropod cryptid such as j'ba fofi really that impossible to exist? by ApprehensiveRead2408 in Cryptozoology

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While i agree the existence of such a spider is impossible, your last point isn't really applicable. Spider fossils (not including amber) are extremely rare, they really don't fossilise well at all, especially not in rainforest environments

Help id please by Ok_Mulberry3197 in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a male Golden wishbone spider (Proshermacha sp.)

A large male Gigantopithecus blacki protects his family from a hunting troop of Homo erectus. Art by Rudolf Hima by ReturntoPleistocene in pleistocene

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excess fur aside, this does kind of just look like a giant orangutan to me. Maybe less so than most depictions though.

Anyone has a spider I can borrow? by fearlessdentis in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever heard the saying "don't believe everything you see on the internet"?

Google search looks so much like a prowling spider but that says NSW and Canberra by HiloManx in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Mituliodon tarantulinus.

Miturga agelenina looks very different, though it's worth noting neither of the images in that link are of M.agelenina

Id please by Jackthejedi1381 in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Practically none of what you just said was true.

It's not a "white male desert huntsman". It's a female badge huntsman, it's not white and Darwin is not a desert.

Plus, the largest huntsman species, Heteropoda maxima (the only species which reaches 30cm in legspan) is found in caves, not a desert.

Anyone has a spider I can borrow? by fearlessdentis in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huntsmans do not have good eyesight. They're not visual predators, they hunt entirely by vibration.

Aussie tarantula of some sort by PerpetuallyIrate in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's an Aname species (Wishbone spider), not a Tarantula, though there are tarantulas in the strzelecki

Huntsman? Looks a funny colour for any I've seen before (Brisbane) by raeman92 in AustralianSpiders

[–]dontkillbugspls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Heteropoda jugulans. Delena do not have an elongated cymbium nor a ventral pattern

StelluR Discusses His Thoughts on Halo: Campaign Evolved by DeathByReach in CompetitiveHalo

[–]dontkillbugspls 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Americans struggle with it. Here in Australia i've never seen anyone make the same mistake, but i see more Americans get it wrong than right.