Neosparassus

Neosparassus is a genus of huntsman spiders found in Australia and first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1903. Members of this genus most closely resemble those of Heteropoda, except that the cephalothorax is high, peaking between the midpoint and the eyes, before sloping toward the back. This angle causes the front of these spiders to appear more prominent than it actually is.^[2]

Neosparassus
Neosparassus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Neosparassus Hogg, 1903[1]
Type species
Neosparassus diana
Species
19, see text

Species

As of March 2019^[update] it contains the following species:^[1]

• Neosparassus calligaster (Thorell, 1870) — Australia
• Neosparassus conspicuus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus diana (L. Koch, 1875) — Western Australia, Victoria, Tasmania
• Neosparassus festivus (L. Koch, 1875) — New South Wales
• Neosparassus grapsus (Walckenaer, 1837) — Australia
• Neosparassus haemorrhoidalis (L. Koch, 1875) — New South Wales
• Neosparassus incomtus (L. Koch, 1875) — New South Wales
• Neosparassus inframaculatus (Hogg, 1896) — Central Australia
• Neosparassus macilentus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland, Victoria
• Neosparassus magareyi Hogg, 1903 — Australia
• Neosparassus nitellinus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus pallidus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus patellatus (Karsch, 1878) — Tasmania
• Neosparassus pictus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus praeclarus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus punctatus (L. Koch, 1865) — Australia
• Neosparassus rutilus (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland
• Neosparassus salacius (L. Koch, 1875) — Queensland, New South Wales
• Neosparassus thoracicus Hogg, 1903 — Northern Australia