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Rain Spider Found this enormous beastie in the house today. Its body length was a good 3cm plus legs if not more. Geotagged,Palystes superciliosus,South Africa,Spring,south africa,spiders Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Rain Spider

Found this enormous beastie in the house today. Its body length was a good 3cm plus legs if not more.

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    Rain Spider This photo give you an idea of its size..this is a standard washing up brush on the right (which I used to remove it from the house) Geotagged,Palystes superciliosus,South Africa,Spring,spiders


    This gives you an idea of the size, pictured next to a standard washing up brush     Posted 12 years ago

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The Common rain spider

The Common rain spider , formerly ''P. natalius'', is a species of huntsman spider native to Southern Africa. It is the most common and widespread species in the ''Palystes'' genus. Its distribution ranges from KwaZulu-Natal province in the east, then westwards to the provinces of Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and North West in the north, and Eastern Cape and Western Cape in the south. It has a body length of 25–30 mm. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

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Uploaded Dec 14, 2012. Captured Dec 14, 2012 09:32 in Unnamed Road, South Africa.
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  • Canon EOS 7D
  • f/4.0
  • 1/128s
  • ISO320
  • 81mm