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Two Tailed Spider

Tamopsis sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

3cm across the leg spread. Very well camouflaged and this species is brown.

Habitat:

commonly found hunting at night on Angophora bark

Notes:

one spotting male and female were about 15cm apart on the same tree. It is not a novahollandae

Reference Links:

Tamopsis fickerti (L. Koch, 1876) Fickert's Two-tailed Spider

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
StephenSolomons
Revised, the name T. novahollandae seems to have disappeared but this was not it anyway. There was a female in this spotting series. Because they were near each other I was convinced they were a pair but they appear to be significantly different so I have removed her

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International Spider Survey
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Flora & Fauna of New South Wales

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PublishedSeptember 24, 2013

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