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Common Scorpion Spider
Platyoides walteri
Platyoides walteri is a species of spider in the family Trochanteriidae. It is the most common and widespread scorpion spider in southern Africa, found in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and South Africa, and has been introduced to Australia.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 684241.