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Portacosa cinerea

Grey wolf spider at Higgins, ACT

Portacosa cinerea at Higgins, ACT - 20 Mar 2019
Portacosa cinerea at Higgins, ACT - 20 Mar 2019
Portacosa cinerea at Higgins, ACT - 20 Mar 2019
Portacosa cinerea at Higgins, ACT - 20 Mar 2019
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Portacosa cinerea 26 Jun 2019 KimPullen
Portacosa cinerea 20 Jun 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Stanwellia sp. (genus) 18 Jun 2019 AlisonMilton

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Varying sizes. At least 10 small spiders in their own nest, with one adult female (photos 4 & 5). At least one young spider still resident in the adult's nest (photo 3).

5 comments

Harrisi wrote:
   19 Jun 2019
Definitely not Stanwellia sp., nor any other of infraorder Mygalomorph. At a glance looks more like family Lycosidae (Wolf spiders), or similar, of Araneomorph infraorder, or modern spiders.
KimPullen wrote:
   27 Jun 2019
Images 1, 4 and 5 are Portacosa cinerea. Images 2 & 3 would be better as a separate sighting - they are either young P. cinerea, or a different species (of wolf spider) altogether.
AlisonMilton wrote:
   28 Jun 2019
Okay thanks
AlisonMilton wrote:
   6 Jul 2019
Hi Kim, I've removed image 2 and replaced it with the adult spider that was in the same hole as the juvenile in image 3. I didn't include it before as you can't see its back so not sure if you can identify it. This may however help with the ID of the spider in image 3.
KimPullen wrote:
   13 Jul 2019
Thanks Alison. The spider in image 3 looks a bit different, but I will now assume it's the same species if they were in the same burrow. I can't imagine a wolf spider being very tolerant of another unrelated spider in its own burrow!

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