Help identifying spider

Eish. Big mistake reading this thread. All the hairs on my body are standing up now
 
i'm assuming it use to be someones pet that got out, my friend took it to the petshop to get food and a cage and such for his spider and he got told this is actually a baby Trinidad Olive tarantula. They definitely do not naturally come forth in Gauteng (im from Roodepoort where we found it). So hence im saying it must have been someone's pet
 
iaywtimnbe said:
Re: the opening post, I found these while going through pics on my hard drive - this female lived in our garden for some time before disappearing one day. I'm not sure if the gardiner had had enough or if our resident Burchell's Coucal had her for breakfast.

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WTF Dude, isn't that thing poisonous??? Or at the very least creepy/scary
 
THEfonz said:
i'm assuming it use to be someones pet that got out, my friend took it to the petshop to get food and a cage and such for his spider and he got told this is actually a baby Trinidad Olive tarantula. They definitely do not naturally come forth in Gauteng (im from Roodepoort where we found it). So hence im saying it must have been someone's pet
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Yeah, that's happening more and more these days. I am surprised though, it looks like a golden brown baboon spider. I certainly wouldn't have guessed exotic first myself...
http://tinyurl.com/nm4dne9

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Yeah, looks like a black button spider - latrodectus indistinctus. Don't mess with those things.
 
@Bwana, I'll make it my mission to ID that thing - even email Ansie Dippenaar. I saw my first one in Mpumalanga (will post pic later). Very impressive - I honestly thought they didn't occur in EC till I found one here in East London. I still think its an indistinctus but I could be wrong. It could be another less harmful comb-footed spider, but don't take chances with them.

Oh - one thing - often they can be identified by their egg sacs. Geometricus has little spiky looking egg sacs (round) while indistinctus has round smooth egg sac. Not sure about the falsies but they could be round and smooth too - will look it up.

Oh, one request... A man with an awesome camera should be using his macro! I want a good pic of that thing hehe.
 
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iaywtimnbe said:
@Bwana, I'll make it my mission to ID that thing - even email Ansie Dippenaar. I saw my first one in Mpumalanga (will post pic later). Very impressive - I honestly thought they didn't occur in EC till I found one here in East London. I still think its an indistinctus but I could be wrong. It could be another less harmful comb-footed spider, but don't take chances with them.

Oh - one thing - often they can be identified by their egg sacs. Geometricus has little spiky looking egg sacs (round) while indistinctus has round smooth egg sac. Not sure about the falsies but they could be round and smooth too - will look it up.

Oh, one request... A man with an awesome camera should be using his macro! I want a good pic of that thing hehe.
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Thanks - I would be interested in knowing what it was. Since I relocated it those pictures are as good as it's going to get I'm afraid.

FWIW I don't have a macro lens - in my line of work it's not really worth the expense.
 
bwana said:
Thanks - I would be interested in knowing what it was. Since I relocated it those pictures are as good as it's going to get I'm afraid.

FWIW I don't have a macro lens - in my line of work it's not really worth the expense.
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I've emailed Ansie Dippenaar and will send her reply as soon as it comes through. Re: Macro - that's the real hobby lens for me. I don't own an SLR but have a good prosumer range cam with good macro... macro opens up a whole new world of photography - mostly fun.
 
@Bwana, I received this response from Ansie:

Hi,
There are two of the buttons that can be so brightly coloured when young. The one more found in Central parts of SA L. renivulvatus and then T. cinctus the one found more in the Eastern coastal parts of SA.

Regards
Ansie
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Latrodectus cinctus:

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Latrodectus renivulvatus:

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More info here:
http://www.mieliestronk.com/knopiespin.html
 
Finally some rain in Cape Town and a friendly visitor :)
 

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