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Very large spider, about 9 cm across.
Near a creek, semi tropical.
Spotted on Dec 29, 2012
Submitted on Mar 6, 2013
4 Comments
Thanks Daniel for the ID and the link.
The closest guess I can make is family Sparassidae(Giant crab spiders).
The genera Heteropoda (huntsman spider) and Olios are found near the border to mexico.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/6928
Thanks drP
Yikes!