Slater eater

Description:

About 24mm long overall a couple of these were revealed when a garden stone was overturned.

Habitat:

Suburban back yard.

Notes:

Thanks Dr Ken Walker, Victoria Museum for ID.
Family: Dysderidae
"They are usually to be found under logs in warm places, often close to woodlice. They have been found in houses. They spend the day in a silken retreat made to enclose crevices in, generally, partially decayed wood, but sometimes construct tent-like structures in indents of various large rocks. Woodlouse spiders hunt at night without the use of a web. Their diet consists exclusively of woodlice which—despite their tough exoskeleton—are pierced easily by the spider's large chelicerae." - wikipedia