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ok thanks man. By the way the two pics in the egg laying sequence is simply splendid man , very nice.
 
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Selenotypus plumipes One of my favourite of the Australian spiders! :)



Selenotypus sp.4



Selenotypus sp.5 mature male and female side by side.



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kyle_de_aussie said:
These look so much like the pair of crassipes ive been mating lately, the males even got the slight pinkish colour to him do you know if the ones in the pic here are (eunice type) crassipes?
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Hi Kyle,
No, these are the typical variant seen in my region :) They are extremely similar in many regards. At first I though perhaps part of a superspecies group (or "intergrades"), but no, because they are found in sympatry/live together in the same area. If they were indeed still part of a superspecies group then they would have needed to be still isolated from the original population (as they could still breed without problems with the original population, the different traits would vanish within a couple of generations and they would be the same again in no time, these are spiders in the process of speciation, just not there quite yet ;)). Being that they are found in sympatry and can still maintain their form, this suggests perhaps they are a valid species/morphospecies and more research should be done to determine this. This is why I call these guys Selenocosmia sp. "eunice" and not S.crassipes "variant". Because I think they will be found to be there own species and not a form of S.crassipes.

Actually, this is part of a larger conversation that could describe a theory behind speciation quite well actually......anyhoo....these are not the ones you're thinking of, lol, sorry to ramble...

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Does Australia have any spiders that aren't dirt brown? lol

just messing with you, nice pics! :)
 
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DavidBeard said:
Does Australia have any spiders that aren't dirt brown? lol

just messing with you, nice pics! :)
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LOL, Thanks David, (remember, there was a time when poo brown was in, we Aussie's are just biding our time for fashion to catch up with us, we invented the safari suit, bet you didn't know that! ;))

My friend, a time will come when you wish you could have what we have, trust me ;)

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More brown spider, this is greeney brown ;) You should have been more specific, now we can do what we Aussies call "taking the piss", it's a favourite passtime and as a nation we're pretty good at it ;)



Back to T's, an older pic, but a good spot for it, breeding S.crassipes



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More blackey dirt brown.... Australian Phlogiellus sp.2



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Who would have known theres so many shades of brown? ;)
Real nice ones! Now I wanna see the funnel webs!

/Lelle
 
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Crotalus said:
Who would have known theres so many shades of brown? ;)
Real nice ones! Now I wanna see the funnel webs!

/Lelle
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Yeah man me to, i would love to see some nice macros of the funnel webs, i've got to see a few in the melbourne museum while they were having a live insect exposition.
 
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Crotalus said:
Who would have known theres so many shades of brown? ;)
Real nice ones! Now I wanna see the funnel webs!
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LOL, Lelle, you're addicted to those things!! Ah, bugger, I still have to send you that paperwork, will get it done by today!! :)

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hey steve, do you handle any of the selenocosmia ??? (i am wandering aspecially about the sp. 4).
 
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More blackey dirt brown.... Australian Selenocosmia sp.2
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Steve, I really like that one!! Does that color fade to mostly brown throughout the molt cycle?
 
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Cpt.nemO said:
hey steve, do you handle any of the selenocosmia ???
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In the course of collecting them, I have handled most of them unintentionally, yes. However, I don't suggest you even try, personally. They are highly defensive and WILL bite seemingly without provocation. Therefore not a question of if, but when you would get bitten ;) Not a nice experience either, you can at the very least equate the symptoms to most old world theraphosid bites, perhaps worse, there are some nasty anecdotal reports...

It's just personal choice, I don't really stand one way or the other on what other people should do, I just know I choose not to handle them ;)

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GoTerps said:
Steve, I really like that one!! Does that color fade to mostly brown throughout the molt cycle?
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Hi,
Throughout perhaps 60% of the cycle they maintain this colour, then they slowly fade to a dark even chocolate brown.

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Steve Nunn said:
In the course of collecting them, I have handled most of them unintentionally, yes. However, I don't suggest you even try, personally. They are highly defensive and WILL bite seemingly without provocation. Therefore not a question of if, but when you would get bitten ;) Not a nice experience either, you can at the very least equate the symptoms to most old world theraphosid bites, perhaps worse, there are some nasty anecdotal reports...

It's just personal choice, I don't really stand one way or the other on what other people should do, I just know I choose not to handle them ;)

Steve
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Yeah man that is definetly the course of action that all should take, i ve seen many time my seleno's deffensive behaviour and that is just simply nasty ;) I have taken a few pics, of mine today, a few different things are happening to it. In the abdomen, a pattern of a lighter colour is emmerging (smiliar to the irminia abdomen pattern). I hope you can spot it on the pics and give me any info regarding it.

Thanks for you time man. Enjoy the pics.
 

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That pattern you can see on your spider is the heart, it becomes more distinct as many of our lighter coloured T's move into premoult. By the look of it yours still has quite a ways to go before moulting, in fact it looks like it has come from a moult fairly recently.

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