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Heteropoda venatoria is a species of spider in the family Sparassidae, the huntsman spiders. It is native to the tropical regions of the world, and it is present in some subtropical areas as an introduced species. Its common names include giant crab spider, pantropical huntsman spider or cane spider. [1]
Males of the huntsman spider Heteropoda venatoria have recently been found to deliberately make a substrate-borne sound when they detect a chemical left by a nearby female of their species. The males anchor themselves firmly to the surface onto which they have crawled and then use their legs to transmit vibrations from their bodies to the surface.
Heteropoda is a genus of spiders in the family Sparassidae (the huntsman spiders). They are mainly distributed in tropical Asia and Australia, while at least one species, H. venatoria , has a cosmopolitan distribution , [ 1 ] and H. variegata occurs in the Mediterranean .
Heteropoda venatoria emarginata Thorell, 1881 — Indonesia (Western New Guinea) Heteropoda venatoria foveolata Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (Yule Is.) Heteropoda venatoria pseudoemarginata Strand, 1909 — Indonesia (Java) Heteropoda vespersa Davies, 1994 — Australia (Queensland)
Brown huntsman spider may refer to: Heteropoda venatoria, a pantropical species of spider; Heteropoda cervina, a large Australian species of spider;
A pioneering work on spiders of the Maldives was conducted by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1904 in the work Fauna and Geography of Maldives. A few common spiders include the brown huntsman spider ( Heteropoda venatoria ), Plexippus paykulli , Argiope anasuja , and lynx spiders , and black widows are very occasionally seen on Hulhumalé island and ...
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