Holconia immanis

Holconia immanis, commonly known as the Sydney huntsman spider and giant banded huntsman, is a species of huntsman spider found in eastern Australia.

Holconia immanis - near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia in 2009
Female specimen in the Australian Museum

Holconia immanis
Adults mating
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Holconia
Species:
H. immanis
Binomial name
Holconia immanis
L. Koch, 1867
Synonyms
  • Delena immanis Koch, L. 1867[1]
  • Voconia immanis Koch, L. 1875
  • Isopeda immanis Hogg, 1903

It was previously known as Isopeda immanis for many years. It is one of the largest species of huntsman in Australia and can have a body length of 4.5 cm and outstretched legs can measure 16 cm across.[2]

The Sydney huntsman was described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1867 as Delena immanis,[1] the specimen collected in Brisbane.[3]

British amateur arachnologist Henry Roughton Hogg placed it in the genus Isopeda.[4]

References
  1. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (25 June 2012). "Species Holconia immanis (L. Koch, 1867)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian Government. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. pp. 115–16. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.
  3. Koch, Ludwig Carl Christian (1867). "Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 17: 173–250 [208].
  4. Hogg. Henry Roughton (1903). "On the Australasian spiders of the subfamily Sparassinae". Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (2): 414–66 [433-35].


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