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Tetralycosa oraria
We found this spider hiding in its shallow hole in the path that leads up to the top of a sand dune in Coral Bay. I think it is a Wolf Spider.
Coastal dunes.
Welcome to Project kerry.vaneeden
Nice first spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing
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Thanks for the comments & help with the ID. I've bookmarked that site, it is very useful.
I did some hunting and found a site that you may want to bookmark. It's a guide to spiders of Australia, and it includes photos!
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian...
Hi Kerry! Great photos, I agree that it's a wolf spider. You can best identify them by eye arrangement - not body type. Just think, "Oh grandmother, what big eyes you have!" Wolf spiders have two very large eyes located at the front over four smaller eyes. They have two more big ones further back. Even if the spider is partially hidden, your pics show the eye arrangement really well!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vKWVPYOm_RM/UD...
Spotted on Oct 17, 2014
Submitted on Nov 2, 2014
