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xo55 May 06, 2012

Hi folks

Interested to hear from anyone who can help to ID this spider.

South-East Spain (Murcia region).

'body' size about 25mm.

Spider was in our garden, which is surrounded by scrubland.

EDIT : did some Googling - seems it may be one of these:

http://www.granadanatural.com/ficha_fauna.php?cod=315

Still interested to hear anyone's opinions - otherwise, I'll mark the thread solved in 24 hours or so.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND May 06, 2012

There are three species of 'tarantula' in the family Theraphosidae known from Spain - Ischnocolus andalusiacus, I. holosericeus, and I. valentinus

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xo55 May 06, 2012

Thanks Flapdoodle!

Before I started looking into this spider, I had no idea there were true tarantulas native to Europe. Interesting stuff...

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