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AGELENIDAE - Funnel Weavers | ARANEIDAE - Orb Web Spiders | BARYCHELIDAE - Brush-Footed Trapdoor Spiders | CHEIRACANTHIIDAE - Long-legged Sac Spiders | CLUBIONIDAE - Sac Spiders | CORINNIDAE - Armoured Sac Spiders | CTENIDAE - Wandering Spiders | DITYNIDAE - Mesh Web Weavers | GNAPHOSIDAE - Flat-bellied Ground Spiders | HAHNIIDAE - Comb-tailed Spiders | HERSILIIDAE - Two-tailed Spiders | LINYPHIIDAE - Hammock-web Spiders | LYCOSIDAE - Wolf Spiders | MIMETIDAE - Pirate Spiders | OXYOPIDAE - Lynx Spiders | PHILODROMIDAE - Running Crab Spiders | PHOLCIDAE - Daddy-long-legs Spiders | PISAURIDAE - Nursery Web Spiders | PSECHRIDAE - Lace-sheet Weavers | PSILODERCIDAE | SALTICIDAE - Jumping Spiders | SCYTODIDAE - Spitting Spiders | SPARASSIDAE - Huntsman Spiders | TETRAGNATHIDAE - Horizontal Orb Weavers | THERAPHOSIDAE - Tarantulas | THERIDIIDAE - Comb-footed Spiders | THOMISIDAE - Crab Spiders | TRACHELIDAE - Bull-headed Hunters | ULOBORIDAE - Feather-legged Spiders | ZODARIIDAE - Ant-hunting Ground Spiders | Spiders Skins, webs and zombies | Spiderlings

CTENIDAE - Wandering Spiders

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Wandering spiders (Ctenidae) are a family of spiders that includes the Brazilian wandering spiders. These spiders have a distinctive longitudinal groove on the top-rear of their oval carapace similar to those of the Amaurobiidae. They are highly defensive and venomous nocturnal hunters. Despite their notoriety for being dangerous, only a few members of Phoneutria have venom known to be hazardous to humans, but the venoms of this family are poorly known, so all larger ctenids should be treated with caution.


Spider identification from photographs should not be definitive in many cases.
For positive identification of many spiders, it is often necessary to examine their copulatory organs under a microscope.

Quote from : Borneo Spiders: A Photographic Field Guide by Joseph K H Koh and Nicky Bay

The gallery images are my Amateurish ID, would be grateful for ID correction.

(ACANTHEINAE sp.)[A] ♂
(ACANTHEINAE sp.)[A]
♂		 (ACANTHEINAE sp.)[A] ♂
(ACANTHEINAE sp.)[A]
♂		 (ACANTHEINAE sp.)[B] ♂
(ACANTHEINAE sp.)[B]
♂		 (Acantheis sp.)[A] ♂
(Acantheis sp.)[A]
♂
(Anahita sp.)[A] ♀
(Anahita sp.)[A]
♀		 (Bowie hosei) ♀
(Bowie hosei)
♀		 (Bowie hosei) ♀
(Bowie hosei)
♀		 (Bowie sarawakensis) ♂
(Bowie sarawakensis)
♂
(Bowie sarawakensis) ♂
(Bowie sarawakensis)
♂

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