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Large, Ash-coloured spider, rather fluffy looking with bands on legs.
At night it creeps out of the cracks in the wooden floor boards at the cottage in Village Kolakham; a remote, forested area on the Indo-Nepal border.This place is situated at an altitude of 1868m in the Kalimpong Hills of Darjeeling District, on the fringe of Neora Valley National Park. When alarmed, it scuttles away very quickly...it was just by chance that my torchlight picked it out.
Spotted on Apr 12, 2015
Submitted on Apr 12, 2015
2 Comments
ZackSaavedra, Thanks...it was spotted in India, not Thailand but thanks for pointing me in the right direction.The Huntsman spiders I have seen have all been very slender. This one was quite robust...so I would probably never have thought Huntsman. Thanks again
What you have here is a sparassid, or a huntsman spider. I'm only familiar with the American genus Olios, so I have no clue what genera are in Thailand.
Good luck getting an ID from someone who's more knowledgeable than I am. Great picture, by the way!