11005-16402 Black tunnelweb spider (Porrhothele antipodiana) adult female in underground silken tunnel. The spider will run along the tunnel when it picks up vibrations of its prey - usually a snail or beetle. It can snatch prey through the walls of its tunnel, and pull it inside to eat. Clinton *
DSC_6262 Black tunnelweb spider (Porrhothele antipodiana) a modern female Mygalomorph, dwarfs the earliest fossil of an extinct Mygalomorph from the Miocene period (5-23 million years ago). The little spider fossil, is one of only four arachnid fossils identified in New Zealand - all of them from the Foulden maar site. Middlemarch, Central Otago *
DSC_6235 The earliest fossil of an extinct Mygalomorph spider from the Miocene period (5-23 million years ago). This little spider fossil, is one of only four arachnid fossils identified in New Zealand - all of them from the Foulden maar site. Middlemarch, Central Otago *
