Holconia immanis
Holconia immanis, commonly known as the Sydney huntsman spider, is a species of huntsman spider found in eastern Australia.
Holconia immanis - near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia in 2009
Female specimen in the Australian Museum
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Holconia |
| Species: | H. immanis |
| Binomial name | |
| Holconia immanis L. Koch, 1867 | |
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It was previously known as Isopeda immanis for many years. It is one of the largest species of huntsman in Australia and can have a body length of 4.5 cm and outstretched legs can measure 16 cm across.[2]
The Sydney huntsman was described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1867 as Delena immanis,[1] the specimen collected in Brisbane.[3]
British amateur arachnologist Henry Roughton Hogg placed it in the genus Isopeda.[4]
References
- Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (25 June 2012). "Species Holconia immanis (L. Koch, 1867)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian Government. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
- Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. pp. 115–16. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.
- Koch, Ludwig Carl Christian (1867). "Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 17: 173–250 [208].
- Hogg. Henry Roughton (1903). "On the Australasian spiders of the subfamily Sparassinae". Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (2): 414–66 [433-35].
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