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'Badge Huntsman Spider' (2008)
What Bug is That? 11 Nov. [Sighted 19 Oct, 2019.]
'Colonies of Redbacks in Holroyd' (1969)
The Broadcaster, 11 June, p. 4. [Sighted 19 Oct, 2019.]
Gilroy, R. and Gilroy, H. (2017)
Phantoms of the Bush: Historical Encounters
of Pioneer Australia. URU Publications: Katoomba, NSW; p. 5.
Hobbins, P. (2012) 'Why don't we cuddle funnel-webs?'
The Conversation,
Mar 6. [Sighted 19 Oct, 2019.]
'Putting the bite on spiders' (2015)
Lion, Oct-Nov, Vol. 121, No. 6, p. 6. [Sighted 19 Oct, 2019.]
STRANGE ANIMALS, FOLKLORE, CRYPTOZOOLOGISTS
The Triantelope, or "Rainbow Huntsman"?
by Ed S.
1 January, 2020
I recently came across an article from 1969 which mentions a potentially new species of spider in Australia. While "Colonies of Redbacks
in Holroyd" (The Broadcaster, Fairfield, NSW. 17 June, 1969) focuses on the results of an informal spider survey which showed an increase
of deadly Redbacks in the western suburbs of Sydney, towards the end of the article the researcher, Mr. Rex Gilroy of the
Mt. York Natural History Museum, says:
...he had also received reports of a strange Huntsman spider, better known as the Triantelope, which is not of the normal brown colour. "Last time I saw one was in 1956. This specimen is about the width of a man's hand with its legs extended and has red, blue, yellow and green stripes on its legs. A common name for this spider could be the Rainbow Huntsman."
'Colonies of Redbacks in Holroyd' (1969) The Broadcaster, 11 June, p. 4.
