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mygalomorph spider (tarantula)

In burrows in a roadside clay bank at Bukit Fraser, a hill station a couple of hours outside Kuala Lumpur.

This photo was taken at night and I used a long twig to tickle at the entrance so the spider rushed out to see if it was prey. The first time it retreated immediately, the second time it stayed out so I could get some photos. At the time I estimated the size of the spider as being ?if you hold out your first two fingers next to each other, the first two joints would be about the length and breadth of the body?. However I think it must have been quite a bit larger than that looking at the photos.
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In burrows in a roadside clay bank at Bukit Fraser, a hill station a couple of hours outside Kuala Lumpur.

This photo was taken at night and I used a long twig to tickle at the entrance so the spider rushed out to see if it was prey. The first time it retreated immediately, the second time it stayed out so I could get some photos. At the time I estimated the size of the spider as being “if you hold out your first two fingers next to each other, the first two joints would be about the length and breadth of the body”. However I think it must have been quite a bit larger than that looking at the photos.
 
Chlidonias
Below I have attached a photo of the burrow with a camera lens cap for scale, so you can compare that photo with the one above of the spider outside the burrow (its abdomen is blocking the entrance). You can't see it but the spider is just inside – I went back in the day-time to take this photo, and when I was placing the lens cap the spider came tearing up from the depths of the burrow because it obviously thought there was prey outside.
 
dean
Amazing shot CH. are these one of the edible species or are they ignored by the locals?
 
Chlidonias
I should imagine all the larger species are edible. I haven't actually heard of them being eaten in Malaysia (although they probably are) but certainly yes in Cambodia and elsewhere mygalomorphs are eaten regularly. I don't know about this particular species (I don't even know which species it is to be honest).
 
Hix
Nice shot!
 
Chlidonias
thanks. I think I was lucky she just sat there for about a minute outside the burrow. The twig across her leg (on the left of the photo) is the end of the one I used to trick her into coming out and once she was out I didn't want to try and move it out of shot because I figured that would scare her back in (or she would become incensed and launch a vicious attack on me for my deceit!).
 
C
Nice shot. I saw what I suspect is the same species at Fraser's Hill a few years ago. I was able to restrict it to the genus Coremiocnemis; perhaps C. hoggi, a species described from this very location in 2010. The primitive and unique-looking Liphistius sp. were also in the vicinity, but far harder to coax into clear view.
 
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condor said:
Nice shot. I saw what I suspect is the same species at Fraser's Hill a few years ago. I was able to restrict it to the genus Coremiocnemis; perhaps C. hoggi, a species described from this very location in 2010. The primitive and unique-looking Liphistius sp. were also in the vicinity, but far harder to coax into clear view.
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I only managed to find one Liphistius burrow, belonging to just a little baby spider, but I couldn't get a photo of the spider itself (he didn't want to play nice).
 

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