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Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda boiei),
Family Sparassidae |
Credit & Copyright: Dr. Bruce G.
Marcot
Explanation: A bit more obvious in close-up with my headlamp illuminating it, is this very cryptic huntsman spider. It is blending amazingly well on this tree trunk bark, here in Tanjung Puting National Park in southern Borneo, Indonesia. I am out on a night hike exploration of the park, and encountered this individual and several others, all wonderfully blending into their substrates.
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