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Black hairs cover it's abdomen. It's brown legs are covered with less grey hairs. It's abdomen is spotted by to rows of yellowish dots. It is most probably a female because female spiders always raise up their young. I didn't get the chance to take even a glimpse of it's head because it keeps on covering it's head as if it is shy. It's spiderlings have no coloration yet. Update: This is a Pritha species, a type of spider that have eyes clustered tightly together in the middle of the carapace. They create holes in soil or earth and filled it with silk until the entrance.
Inside dry earth, I found under the longhouse of Sabah Tea Garden, Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia.
>>>Map accuracy : 10m diameter. While hunting for Spitting Spiders hiding inside the holes and cracks of the mounds of dry earth (dry due to being sheltered from the rain) under the long house, I found this spider instead. Only when I'm starting to photograph it, I noticed more smaller spiders together with it - it's babies. Close species that lives in Madai cave here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/105...
Spotted on Dec 12, 2009
Submitted on Oct 8, 2011
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