Isopeda sp
Meaning of name: Unknown
Distribution: Unknown
Description: This spider has a body length of approximately 35 millimetres.
Notes: This spider had been paralysed by a Great Orange Huntsman Wasp, Cryptocheilus fabricolor. The wasp had flown away from the spider to check her bearings when this photograph was taken.
These photographs were taken in December.
References: Identification courtesy of Kim Pullen, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences.
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This huntsman spider has been paralysed by a wasp.
The wasp is dragging the huntsman spider to her brood chamber. The spider will stay alive, but paralysed, while the wasp baby eats it.