Tags: Arachnid.

Heteropoda is a genus of spiders in the family Sparassidae the huntsman spiders. They are mainly distributed in tropical Asia and Australia while at least one species H. venatoria has a cosmopolitan distribution and H. variegata occurs in the Mediterranean.These spiders catch and eat insects but in a laboratory study one species readily ate fish and tadpoles when offered and H.

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