Heteropoda huntsman hiding

Heteropoda is a genus in the family Sparassidae, commonly known as giant huntsman spiders. More than a thousand Sparassidae species occur in most warm temperate to tropical regions of the world, including our country here Australia, also Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean and the Americas.

Sometimes finding themselves in human homes like this one here in my kitchen. I love the golden-brown glow against the black. They are superb hunters of insects.

This is a male.